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February 27, 2020

The vote of the immunity council of Palazzo Madama on the authorization to proceed against the former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on the Open Arms case has been postponed. The President of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, informed the classroom at the end of the junta's meeting for the regulation. The final vote of the junta was scheduled for today. The postponement, still to be defined, is linked to the absence of the Northern League senator Luigi Augussori, who is in 'voluntary quarantine', blocked in the red area of ​​Lodi for the Coronavirus emergency.

The President of the Council of Immunities, Maurizio Gasparri, will anticipate the meeting scheduled for 4 pm at 2 pm and the new date for the vote will be established, probably by 15 March.

In the investigation against Matteo Salvini the accusation for the leader of the Carroccio of abuse and omission of official acts and kidnapping for having detained 164 people on board the ship of the Spanish NGO, off the island was hypothesized di Lampedusa in August 2019.

President Casellati explained that the junta for the regulation, "unanimously considered that in the face of exceptional circumstances, a state of necessity, such as to determine objective impossibility to participate by one or more members, it is legitimate and justified" a derogation from the calendar with the postponement of the voting date.