Italian Interior Minister and Deputy-Premier Matteo Salvini, left, laughs as he sits beside The League party's Roberto Calderoli, at the Senate in Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Italy???s political leaders scrambled to line up allies and form alliances Tuesday as the country???s right-wing interior minister pressed his demands for an early election in the hope of snagging the premiership as a platform for his anti-migrant, euroskeptic agenda. Senators hastily summoned back from a vacation break convened for a vote on scheduling their consideration of a no-confidence motion lodged by Matteo Salvini???s League party against Premier Giuseppe Conte???s 14-month-old populist government. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar)