Unable to translate to default lanuage

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having two languages, it, en, and

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'

WAGTAIL_CONTENT_LANGUAGES = LANGUAGES = [
    ('en', "English"),
    ('it', "Italian"),
]
USE_I18N = True
WAGTAIL_I18N_ENABLED = True

USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True

WAGTAIL_CONTENT_LANGUAGES = LANGUAGES = [
    ('en', "English"),
    ('it', "Italian"),
]
INSTALLED_APPS += [
   "wagtail_localize",
    "wagtail_localize.locales"
]

I create a page in it then clicking translate page, WT tells me ' The page 'abcde' was successfully submitted for translation into English' , but no page gets created Performing the same operation from en language works creating an it page

Wagtail v.2.11.2 wagtail-localize==0.9.3