Italian PM to be tried in actual court

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The ex-Italian Interior Minister stands accused of doing something illegal (keeping migrants offshore on a boat). Unlike in America, where the President was subject to a show trial run by his political friends after a partisan vote in the lower house, in Italy the Italian Interior Minister is to be sent to an actual criminal court after a majority of members of the government voted to strip him of immunity and try him:

Italy's Senate has voted to allow prosecutors to put far-right leader Matteo Salvini on trial over charges of holding migrants at sea.

Mr Salvini, who previously served as Italy's interior minister, is accused of illegally keeping people on a boat off Sicily for days in August 2019.

Some 116 migrants remained aboard the Gregoretti for close to a week.

On Wednesday, a majority of senators voted for the trial of the anti-immigration League leader to go ahead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51473239

Is this what actual division of power looks like?