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Italy's First Black Senator
March 10 , 2018
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- An Italian man of Nigerian origin, who is the chief immigration spokesman for the far-right League party, has been elected as the country's first black senator.
- Tony Iwobi was elected in the industrial city of Brescia in northern Italy, which a major immigration hub.
- He used the campaign slogan #StopInvasion, a reference to the more than 690,000 migrants who have landed on Italian shores from North Africa since 2013.
- Italy's general election left the country with a hung parliament in which no single party or coalition commands an overall majority
- The League, led by Matteo Salvini, was the winning party in the right-wing alliance that took the most votes but fell short of an overall majority.
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