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Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday that he will remain in office even if he is initially convicted of charges relating to his blocking a migrant ship from entering an Italian port. He is hoping for an acquittal, but if not, he would still be back in his ministerial office and working the next day, he said in Rome. Salvini, 51, heads the right-wing governing party Lega. “I am counting on an independent judge to come to the conclusions that seem clearest to me. If this is not the case in the first instance, there are fortunately two further instances in Italy,” he wrot…