Italy's League leader faces friendly fire over budget


Leader of right-wing League party and Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini gestures as he speaks during a rally in Rome, Italy, December 8, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

ROME/PADUA (Reuters) - Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, normally relishes confrontation, but now the firebrand populist is under attack from a place he calls home.

Dissent is growing in his League party's political heartland, the industrial north, adding to pressure on Salvini and his coalition partner to reverse course on their 2019 budget.

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