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ITALY: PM Offers No Sign Of Salvini Moving To Interior Ministry

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PM Giorgia Meloni is answering questions at her end-of-year press conference that was delayed from end-2024. The lengthy conference has covered a broad range of issues. 

  • Asked about the prospect of a Cabinet reshuffle, Meloni says she does not like to use the term. Specifically asked on Deputy PM and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing populist League, saying in late 2024 that he would ask the PM about a move back to the interior ministry Meloni says "Salvini would be an excellent Interior Minister but [Matteo] Piantedosi is also an excellent Interior Minister".
  • Salvini was cleared in December of illegally detaining migrants on a rescue ship in 2019 during his previous tenure as interior minister. The Interior Ministry is the office that deals with Italy's immigration policy. Given its prominence in the national discourse, and the need for the League to seek a boost to its support - currently around the same 9% level achieved in the 2022 general election - Salvini may see a senior role in controlling immigration as a path to increasing his party's vote share in any future election. 
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PM Giorgia Meloni is answering questions at her end-of-year press conference that was delayed from end-2024. The lengthy conference has covered a broad range of issues. 

  • Asked about the prospect of a Cabinet reshuffle, Meloni says she does not like to use the term. Specifically asked on Deputy PM and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing populist League, saying in late 2024 that he would ask the PM about a move back to the interior ministry Meloni says "Salvini would be an excellent Interior Minister but [Matteo] Piantedosi is also an excellent Interior Minister".
  • Salvini was cleared in December of illegally detaining migrants on a rescue ship in 2019 during his previous tenure as interior minister. The Interior Ministry is the office that deals with Italy's immigration policy. Given its prominence in the national discourse, and the need for the League to seek a boost to its support - currently around the same 9% level achieved in the 2022 general election - Salvini may see a senior role in controlling immigration as a path to increasing his party's vote share in any future election.