(ANSA) - Trieste, October 16 - Anti-migrant Euroskeptic
League party leader Matteo Salvini was briefly hospitalised for
a renal colic Wednesday.
Salvini had been on his way to Trieste for the funeral of two
Italian police officers shot by a Dominican man last week.
He was forced to call off his visit and was taken to a
hospital at Monfalcone where he was quickly treated.
A League statement said "Salvini is enormously sorry not to
have been able to take part in the ceremony for Pierluigi and
Matteo, and confirms his appointments for today and tomorrow in
Umbria", where regional elections are upcoming.
Salvini is now back in opposition after a bid to force a snap
election failed in August.
His League is Italy's most popular party, polling at around
33%.
He pulled the plug on the 14-month 5-Star (M5S)-League
government in mid-August citing alleged obstructionism by his
government partners in the M5S.
To his dismay, the M5S then teamed up with their long-term
foes in the centre-left DEmocratic Party (PD) to form the
current government.
Salvini briefly hospitalised with colic
Has to skip police officers' funeral