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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, right-wing, on Tuesday celebrated parliamentary approval of his anti-immigration decree and tightened the ropes in the Government by charging his partner, the Five Star Movement (M5S), and his willingness to stop the line Turin-Lyon railway.

Discrepancies within the Executive between the M5S and the League over issues such as immigration, security, employment or taxation are becoming more evident in recent times. Salvini, who polls give an intention to vote above 36% , is gaining prominence in the country to the detriment of its partners, the "grillinos" of Luigi Di Maio , and his most recent victory came yesterday with parliamentary approval of the decree that imposes fines on NGOs that save lives at sea .

The controversial measure provoked reluctance in the Five Stars, but Salvini, who obtained 17% of the votes in the generals of last year - almost half that of the M5S - finally achieved the green light .

The Italian Interior Minister uploaded a tweet in which he summarizes what this decree entails: "The Security Decree, more power to apply the law, more border controls , more men to arrest the mafia. I thank all Italians and the Blessed Virgin Mary. "

Today he has celebrated the victory in social networks and has already concentrated on his next two battles, the completion of the works of the Turin-Lyon railway line and the budgets for 2020 that Italy must approve before the end of the year.

The M5S has always defended that the railway line between Turin and Lyon is an unnecessary and even harmful expense for the country and has presented a motion to block its continuity that will be voted on tomorrow in the Senate, something that rejects the Salvini League, which the See as a strategic work.

"It would be absurd to insist on the idea of ​​leaving the jobs unfinished. The position of the Italians with their vote and that of the Italian Prime Minister ( Giuseppe Conte , who has been favorable to complete the line) seems very clear to me," Salvini said in an interview with Radio24.

He has also taken the opportunity to criticize the Minister of Infrastructure, Danilo Toninelli , who is contrary to this project: "Toninelli does not seem to be up to managing the infrastructure of such a beautiful country, but as difficult as Italy." In addition, he has added more fuel to the fire by regretting that he receives daily attacks from his M5S allies, something that is " not pleasant ".

The Italian press demonstrates on Tuesday the advantage that Salvini is taking out his government partner with headlines such as "Salvini, leader of the M5S", of Il Giornale , or "Salvini eats the M5S", of La Repubblica .

The vice president of the Government also has another pending fight, approve his promised drastic reduction of taxes on all incomes in the next 2020 budgets and therefore, leaving aside his portfolio of Interior, has called for this afternoon to the unions to a meeting at the headquarters of his ministry.

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