Mattarella stopped Salvini returning as interior minister says Leaguer

President Sergio Mattarella stopped

Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini from returning to his former post

as interior minister after his acquittal in a migrant boat

kidnap case made it possible for him to move from the transport

ministry last year, a leading member of his right-wing League

party said Tuesday.

"Salvini should have become Interior Minister at the beginning

of the legislature; he wasn't granted it because he was on

trial, but once acquitted, he should have immediately gone to

the interior ministry," said Senator Claudio Borghi on L'Aria

che tira on La7.

"There was a fundamental injustice: he's Deputy Prime Minister

like (post-Berlusconi Forza Italia leader Antonio) Tajani, who

is also foreign minister, and Salvini should have been given the

interior ministry post.

"He wasn't given it due to a terrible injustice.

"From what I understand and what is being said, it was probably

denied to him at the instigation of the President of the

Republic."

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