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Italy's Salvini denies report he is considering snap election - AGI

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Italy's Salvini denies report he is considering snap election - AGI
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and right-wing League party leader Matteo Salvini attends a news conference in Jerusalem, December 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad -
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini denied on Wednesday a report in la Repubblica daily saying that his ruling League party was considering pushing for a snap election in March.

The government "will stay on for five years", Salvini said during a visit in Jerusalem according to Italian news agency AGI.

(Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni, editing by Valentina Za)

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