Italy’s Salvini Eyes Revival After Virus Spreads Among Migrants
- Anti-migrant opposition leader rips Rome’s containment efforts
- Tests showed 129 positive for virus at migrant center in north
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Italian opposition leader Matteo Salvini is seeking to capitalize on a coronavirus outbreak among migrants to press his core campaign platform, saying a trial over his past crackdown will lift his party’s flagging poll numbers.
Salvini, the populist head of the anti-migrant League party, ripped into the government led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte after more than 100 migrants tested positive for the coronavirus at a center in Treviso, in the north of the country.