Premier Italy whistle populist Salvini back

rome - The non-party Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has retaliated his right-wing populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Salvini with his party, the Lega, especially against immigration, illegal immigrants and the EU, this week suddenly wanted to know how many Roma live in Italy. To get a picture of the situation, 'we have to do what was once called counting', he said on the TV.

Conte stressed that 'nobody here intends to hold censuses on an ethnic basis and that is in fact contrary to the law and clearly discriminatory'.

The lawyer Conte was put forward by the election winners of 4 March, Matteo Salvini of the Lega and Luigi Di Maio of the Eurosceptic populists of the Five Star Movement (M5S) as a compromise prime minister. Conte had no political experience before he became head of government at the beginning of this month.