Italy’s Conte Holds Off Salvini Challenge in Local Elections
- Ruling coalition parties retain Tuscany, two other regions
- Results strengthen premier ahead of talks on EU recovery funds
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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte saw off a challenge from opposition rival Matteo Salvini in local elections, strengthening the premier’s grip on his quarrelsome coalition ahead of negotiations over the European Union’s recovery fund.
Parties in Conte’s year-old alliance, led by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, held on to three regions including the leftist bastion of Tuscany and Puglia in the south, in elections held Sunday and Monday, according to projections by Consorzio Opinio Italia for Rai state television.