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The Latest: Anti-migrant leader demands right to rule Italy

Right-wing, anti-immigrant and euroskeptic League's Matteo Salvini gives a press conference on the preliminary election results, in Milan, Monday, March 5, 2018. Leader of euroskeptic League party Salvini says the center-right coalition has won 'the right and duty to govern' Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Right-wing, anti-immigrant and euroskeptic League's Matteo Salvini gives a press conference on the preliminary election results, in Milan, Monday, March 5, 2018. Leader of euroskeptic League party Salvini says the center-right coalition has won 'the right and duty to govern' Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) Right-wing, anti-immigrant and euroskeptic League's Matteo Salvini gives a press conference on the preliminary election results, in Milan, Monday, March 5, 2018. Leader of euroskeptic League party Salvini says the center-right coalition has won 'the right and duty to govern' Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

By Associated Press 3 min read

ROME (AP) – The Latest on Italy’s parliamentary election (all times local):

11:40 a.m.

Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s anti-migrant euroskeptic League party, says the center-right coalition has won “the right and the duty to govern” Italy.

Salvini said Monday the result indicates a center-right coalition will lead the next government and that his party had would lead the center-right, after eclipsing coalition partner Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia in the vote.

The League jumped from 4 percent of the vote five years ago to nearly 18 percent in Sunday’s vote, ahead of Forza Italia, which had nearly 14 percent.