In this photo provided by the League party press office, Italian Interior Minister, Deputy-Premier and leader of the League party, Matteo Salvini, shows a banner reading in Italian “First party in Italy, Thanks”, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, May 26, 2019. Italian exit polls indicate Matteo Salvini’s right-wing populist League is leading Italian party in European election. With one-third of the Italian vote, the League is poised to become one of the biggest parties in the European Parliament with 28 seats, according to provisional results. Meanwhile, Salvini’s coalition partner in Italy, the populist 5-Star Movement, got only 17 percent, shifting the balance of power from last year’s Italian election. His party’s backing has doubled since the national election a little over a year ago and increased exponentially since the last European election, when it got just 6 percent.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2019 08:15 UTC