Italy's government won't fall

M5S voters voted online in favour of Interior Miniister Matteo Salvini's immunity from prosecution. Journalist Carlo Fusi reports.

I due vicepremier Luigi Di Maio e Matteo Salvini Source: AAP Image/ EPA/FABIO FRUSTACI

Italy's Five Star Movement members participated in an online poll to decide whether M5S lawmakers on a Senate panel should vote to lift League leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's parliamentary immunity to face kidnapping charges over migrants held on board the Diciotti coast guard ship in a standoff with the EU last August.

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