Italy`s right-wing leader Salvini fails to break left`s grip
(WorldNews Politics)

ROME (AP) - Voters in a 70-year-old stronghold of the Italian left have dealt a stinging blow to right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini`s strategy of using regional voting to help catapult him and his anti-migrant populist League back into national power. In final results announced on Monday from voting a day earlier in the prosperous Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, the center-left Democrats` incumbent won 51.4% of the vote for the governorship of the longtime fortress of the Italian left. Salvini had criss-crossed the region dubbed Italy`s `´Red Belt` for weeks in the quest for dominance, but his handpicked League candidate finished with 43.7%. The Democrats are the junior partner in...