No notice of guarantee, no millionaire compensation from companies, no fines to pay, but “a campaign of real hatred” and the will to defend “my honor and also that of my son, dragged into this controversy for no reason”: this is the fulcrum of the defensive strategy of the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè. After two weeks in the eye of the storm, in the Senate it dissociates itself from the accusations and counterattacks on the journalistic investigation of the Report on the Visibilia and Ki Group companies, the newspapers that relaunched it and those who ferociously criticize it in public but in private do not disdain to book in the establishments he founded. The majority squares off. Brothers of Italy renews its trust, the League welcomes the “undue act of transparency”. But the case does not seem closed because the 5 Star Movement announces a motion of no confidence. And Pd secretary Elly Schlein confirms that the party will vote for her “certainly”. “I swear on my honor that I have never been reached by any guarantee notice and I asked my lawyers to verify,” began Santanchè, speaking from the government benches, surrounded by ministers: the two deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani , Minister Elisabetta Casellati, the head of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi, the Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani. The bench usually reserved for the prime minister is empty: Giorgia Meloni is busy in Poland. You chair the session the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa.
“Please react to this practice which today is my turn and which tomorrow could affect any political or non-political citizen,” exhorts Santanchè addressing the senators. In his hand the bound sheets of the speech, in which he lists the figures on his shareholdings in the companies on which the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a file. «I want to clarify some omitted and artifact details», he articulates: «From the Ki Group I received 27 thousand euros gross in the three-year period 2019-2021. an average of 9,000 euros a year»; «TFR not paid to employees? It was to be paid in 2023. I asked for information and I can say that everyone will be satisfied in their credit rights». As for “my group, which I proudly founded and for which I take responsibility”, he specifies that for “30 years no one has accused me of anything”. Then he comments: «When I look in the mirror I like what I see reflected. Only those who steal hide, I have nothing to hide. And it makes me smile that the fiercest criticisms come from those who privately have a completely different attitude and who perhaps like to book in the establishments I have founded. And I’m stopping here for love of country…». Then comes the news that the registration in the register of suspects of the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanché is no longer secret, the circumstance is in any case compatible with the failure to send a notice of guarantee.
The hall, almost full, listens in silence, warming up only when the M5S group leader Stefano Patuanelli announces a no-confidence motion, the reasons for which were closely illustrated by the president Giuseppe Conte in a press conference at the end of the briefing: «We we believe – he said – that there are no conditions for Made in Italy to be represented by Minister Santanchè. It’s a matter of public ethics.” Before the no-confidence motion, the Democratic Party, which relaunched the request for resignation in the Chamber, would have preferred to call the government into question by requesting the answer to the question to ministers Giorgetti, Urso and Calderone presented by Senator Antonio Misiani: “we do not sign it, it is not our motion – it is the line of the dem – however if it were scheduled and arrived in the classroom we certainly could not fail to vote for it ». The caesura between the centrists of Action and Italia Viva then widens again, engaged in an internal debate on guarantees. The intervention on behalf of Azione-Italia viva is entrusted to Senator Renziano Enrico Borghi who calls into question the premier Meloni, to whom he entrusts the assessment of the minister’s permanence in the government, saying no to the “presumption of innocence on alternate plates”. Carlo Calenda disagrees: «Guaranteeism has nothing to do with it, Santanchè evaluates step backwards».
2023-07-05 20:28:00
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