All of Italy Is Waiting for Salvini to Decide on Snap Vote
- League chief skips cabinet meeting, government talks in Rome
- Most of Salvini’s lieutenants want an early vote, adviser says
Matteo Salvini on July 18.
Photographer: Emmi Korhonen/AFP via Getty Images
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Pressured by his closest advisers to force a snap election, Matteo Salvini is hesitating.
The usually hyper-active deputy premier is keeping the country waiting as he considers whether to take his biggest political gamble yet and pull out of Italy’s fractious populist coalition.