FILE PHOTO: Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini smiles just before a Senate vote in Rome, Italy, August 5, 2019 REUTERS/ Remo Casilli/File Photo
ROME/CATANIA, Italy (Reuters) - Italians take their August beach holidays very seriously and politicians traditionally avoid disturbing them for fear of losing votes. But Matteo Salvini has little time for tradition and nowhere is taboo for his high-octane, non-stop campaigning.
When the leader of the right-wing League announced on Thursday that he was pulling the plug on a year-old ruling coalition with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, he did it from the Adriatic beach town of Pescara.
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