Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini on Sunday said dealing with security as interior
minister is "something beautiful" he can once again aspire to
after being acquitted of abduction charges by a Palermo court
for stopping migrants from landing on Lampedusa when he filled
the position five years ago.
However, the League leader said he was fine in his current post
for the time being.
"There is a friend, a person who has my friendship and my trust
like Matteo Piantedosi at the interior ministry", said Salvini,
replying to a reporter's question on whether he could
potentially fill the position again after judges in Palermo on
Friday night ruled there was no case to answer in the Open Arms
trial.
"Surely, dealing with security, the future, the peace and
serenity of millions of Italians is something beautiful everyone
could aspire to and, if someone in the past could say 'Salvini
can't go to the interior (ministry) because a trial is ongoing
over his conduct as minister', now this alibi doesn't exist
anymore".
"But right now, I am fine where I am.
"Then I will talk to Giorgia (Meloni) and Matteo (Piantedosi),
this government is a team of friends and so we will see", he
concluded.
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