House rejects motion of no-confidence against Salvini
Salvini had ended up in the crosshairs of the opposition for the League's agreement with Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, which was never formally cancelled.
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The Chamber of Deputies rejected the no-confidence motion against the deputy premier, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, with 211 no votes, 129 yes and 3 abstentions. Salvini had ended up in the crosshairs of the opposition for the League's agreement with Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, which was never formally terminated.
The opposition's motion
.The no-confidence motion was tabled by Azione, which took aim at the League's relations with Russia Unita, Valdimir Putin's party, after the Carroccio secretary's statements following the death in prison of Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny ("We need to clear the air. But the doctors, the judges do it, we don't do it'), lacking an explicit condemnation of the Russian president. The League's note in which the Carroccio argued on Tuesday that 'after the invasion of Ukraine, the purely political collaboration intentions of 2017 between the League and United Russia no longer have any value' was not enough to convince Carlo Calenda's party to withdraw the motion. To do so, the latter demanded written proof of the termination of the agreement.
Salvini: yet another figurehead of the left, get on with it
'Thank you. Yet another figurehead of the left, let's get on with our work'. This is how Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini commented in a tweet on the news that the Chamber had rejected the motion of no-confidence against him.
Richetti (Azione): Salvini not even in court and meanwhile he plays Italy's credibility
"It is regrettable that even today Minister Salvini is not in Parliament to bring his arguments on the agreement committing the League with Putin's party. And that his colleague Lupi tells this motion as an instrumentalisation for a parliamentary attack'. These were the words of Matteo Richetti, leader of the Azione-Per-Renew Europe group, during the explanation of vote on Salvini's motion. 'This motion,' Richetti continued, 'is anything but a generic attack, and is of an almost embarrassing simplicity. There is an agreement that commits the deputy premier with United Russia: if that agreement is no longer there, it is enough to prove it. Today Senator Romeo is explaining that the agreement never had any value: as usual from Salvini's party there is idle talk, and meanwhile the credibility of the country is at stake,' he concluded
