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Italy’s Senate strips Salvini of immunity, in effort to prevent Italexit (Video)

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how Italian senators have moved to strip Matteo Salvini of his parliamentary immunity.
Coming a day after Italy revealed it will need a massive bailout in order to save its crumbling economy, the popular Salvini, who was poised to become Italy’s next Prime Minister, could now face a trial for allegedly detaining migrants at sea last year, when he refused to let an NGO ship carrying scores of migrants dock at the Italian island of Lampedusa.