New Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese (L) sworn in, as PM Giuseppe Conte (R) looks on, 5 Sep 19 Image copyright
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New Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese (L) is sworn in as PM Giuseppe Conte (R) searches.

Italy’s brand-new populist-centre left federal government has been selected amidst legal relocations against the ousted right-wing Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini.

Prosecutors released a libel match versus Mr Salvini on behalf of migrant rescuer Carola Rackete. She disregarded Mr Salvini’s order to keep her charity ship of Italian waters.

And a mayor who defied Mr Salvini by sheltering migrants in the southern town of Riace saw his restriction lifted.

An independent has changed Mr Salvini.

She is Luciana Lamorgese, a profession civil servant and migration professional. She is anticipated to bring Italy closer to its EU partners on migration, ending Mr Salvini’s strident project versus the charity ships rescuing migrants off Libya.

The brand-new federal government has 10 ministers from populist celebration 5 star (M5S) and nine from the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), with independent Giuseppe Conte staying prime minister.

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Three of the 7 women ministers (L-R): Paola Pisano (technological innovation); Paola De Micheli (transport); Luciana Lamorgese (interior).

With a typical age of 47, the government is the youngest in Italian history. And 7 of the 21 ministers are ladies.

5 Star and the PD have long been political competitors, however concurred on a coalition after Mr Salvini’s League attempted to force a breeze election, clashing with Mr Conte.

‘ Avoid quarrel with Brussels’

The coalition should still win self-confidence votes in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) and Senate (upper home) on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. It is anticipated to win both, though it has only a slim majority in the Senate.

Mr Salvini is bitterly vital of the EU, accusing the bloc of letting Italy become “Europe’s refugee camp”. But the new EU Affairs Minister, Vincenzo Amendola, said “the parties in this government will do their utmost not to quarrel with Brussels, not to have meaningless fights or rows”.

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Recently Italy, like Greece, has actually struggled to deal with migrant boats sailing from North Africa or Turkey.

They are on the front line of the crisis, as people-smuggling gangs make use of migrants desperately running away war or alarming poverty.

Case against Salvini

Prosecutors in Rome are acting on a problem by Carola Rackete accusing Mr Salvini of carrying out a smear project versus her German non-governmental organisation, Sea-Watch.

The prosecutors are requesting seizure of Mr Salvini’s social networks accounts. He is a respected user of Facebook and twitter.

The suit concerns Salvini phrases such as “unlawful and outlawed organisation”, “pirate ship”, “accomplices of smugglers and traffickers”, and “lawbreakers”.

Mr Salvini countered on Twitter, stating (in Italian): “Knocked by a German communist, a trafficker of immigrants, who rammed a finance guards motor launch: a medal for me! I’ll never quit.”

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Mr Salvini positions for a selfie with a supporter in Taormina, Sicily.

Italian media report that by mid-May Mr Salvini had actually invested just 17 days at the interior ministry given that the start of the year.

A court in Locri meanwhile withdrawed the ban troubled Riace mayor Domenico Lucano, popular throughout Italy for having invited migrants to his town.

He was put under home arrest and then expelled in October 2018, now he can return to Riace.

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