Italy’s leftist-establishment government earlier this week moved ahead with plans to grant amnesty to 600,000 illegal migrants living in the country, despite widespread opposition. As Teresa Bellanova, Italy’s pro-mass migration Agriculture Minister, signed the bill which granted six-month residency permits to illegal migrants working in the agricultural and domestic sectors into law on Wednesday,... 

Three senators from the left-wing populist Five Star Movement (M5S) have left the party to join Salvini’s increasingly popular League party. Senators Ugo Grassi, Fra Francesco Urraro, and Stefano Lucidi have all announced that they would be leaving the Five Start Movement for Matteo Salvini’s League, Il Giornale reports. Grassi’s decision was applauded by populist leader Matteo Salvini, who... 

A senator from the Five Star Movement (M5S) and a judge have been robbed by a gang of Algerian migrants at Rome’s main Termini railway station. Senator Gabriel Lanzi and a judge of the Court of Cassation were both robbed by three Algerians, with the judge having his briefcase full of confidential documents stolen not long after he had finished eating lunch at a restaurant close by the station, Italy’s... 

A newly released poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Italians do not approve of the new Democratic Party-Five Star Movement coalition, while a substantial portion of the population prefers the former populist coalition government led by Matteo Salvini. According to an IPSOS poll, 54 percent of Italian citizens who were surveyed reported not liking the newly formed PD-M5S coalition government... 

Salvini was an idiot. Let’s face it, we’re all sad and all about leaving the government but then again it was HE who broke off with the M5S and forfeited his dual role as both vice-premier and minister of interior over a faking train track with France!!!! He was given full power by the leftists of M5S and he was allowed to stop the invasion and he did a very good job at that but then he... 

Western Europe’s preeminent National Populist politician, and now former Interior Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini has denounced Italy’s new Democratic Party-Five Star Movement (M5S) coalition as the ‘least democratic government of all time’. The newly formed establishment-anti-establishment coalition saw Salvini, the leader of the nationalist-populist League Party, ousted from his position... 

The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the establishment Democratic Party (PD) – two parties with pretty much nothing in common – have joined hands to take down their arch political opponent – Matteo Salvini. Yesterday, the BBC reported that the two unlikely partners were able to strike a coalition deal to take down right-wing populist Matteo Salvini and his League Party, which has surged... 

According to reports, some party members of the Five Star Movement are thinking of ditching the left-wing populist party for Salvini’s National Populist League party. After strong disagreements between Salvini’s League and their coalition partners in the Five Star Movement (M5S), it’s looking more and more likely that Italy will be seeing a new election in the near future. With Salvini’s party... 

Leaked reports suggest that Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini has requested his fellow League party members to skip their holidays to ready themselves for a coalition crisis and possible snap elections. According to a report by Italy’s daily newspaper Il Giornale, this week, following a conflicting vote between coalition partners the League and Five Star Movement (M5S) on the TAV train... 

Rome has effectively derailed an EU statement meant to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim leader if President Nicolas Maduro fails to set up snap elections, a Five Star Movement source confirmed to RT. Italy announced the veto at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers that started on January 31 in Romania, the source said. The statement, which was supposed to be delivered by EU foreign... 

A court in Sicily ruled on Thursday that Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini can be charged with kidnapping after he prevented refugees from disembarking an Italian coast guard ship in August. “I confess,” Salvini said in a video posted to his Facebook page, “there is no need for a trial. It’s true, I did it and I’d do it again.” “I risk 3 to 15... 

Two Italian MPs have been busted for mixing passion with politics after being secretly recorded having sex in a bathroom at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, according to Italian media outlets. The naughtiness, which was captured with a smartphone, involved MPs from the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Lega Nord, suggesting that the coalition partners aren’t only close in the professional sense. The... 

Huge crowds spontaneously greeted Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini during an appearance at a traditional religious observance in the central city of Viterbo yesterday, confirming opinion polls which said his party was now the single biggest in Italy, surpassing even his senior coalition partner the Five Star Movement. In a video Salvini posted to social media, which showed the crowd’s pop... 

Italian voters have rallied to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s Lega party in droves in Sunday’s national local elections, putting that party ahead even of its coalition partner in government. Preliminary results from the local elections—in which some seven million Italians could vote—showed that support for Salvini had sky-rocketed following his refusal to allow the African invasion ship... 

No stumbling blocks expected for anti-establishment coalition. Italy’s new populist government, made up of a coalition of relative political newcomers, will face its first test Tuesday. The Italian Senate will debate and then hold a vote of confidence on the new cabinet and government program, before the Parliament’s other chamber holds a similar vote. The two anti-establishment parties, Lega...