(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 22 - Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on Sunday said dealing with security as interior minister is "something beautiful" he can once again aspire to after being acquitted of abduction charges by a Palermo court for stopping migrants from landing on Lampedusa when he filled the position five years ago.
    However, the League leader said he was fine in his current post for the time being.
    "There is a friend, a person who has my friendship and my trust like Matteo Piantedosi at the interior ministry", said Salvini, replying to a reporter's question on whether he could potentially fill the position again after judges in Palermo on Friday night ruled there was no case to answer in the Open Arms trial.
    "Surely, dealing with security, the future, the peace and serenity of millions of Italians is something beautiful everyone could aspire to and, if someone in the past could say 'Salvini can't go to the interior (ministry) because a trial is ongoing over his conduct as minister', now this alibi doesn't exist anymore".
    "But right now, I am fine where I am.
    "Then I will talk to Giorgia (Meloni) and Matteo (Piantedosi), this government is a team of friends and so we will see", he concluded. (ANSA).