Dossier case, Meloni: “Hitting Arianna is like hitting me, but she has no skeletons in the closet”

“They strike Arianna so as not to hit me,” he says Giorgia Melonibecause “he has fewer protections than me”. The Prime Minister speaks in the new book by Bruno Vespa (‘Hitler and Mussolini. The fatal idyll that shocked Europe and the central role of Italy in the new Europe’ out on 30 October) about her sister and the dossier case but also about electoral law. An investigation by the Bari prosecutor’s office revealed that thousands of bank accounts were spied on by an Intesa Sanpaolo employee, who was later fired on the spot and under investigation. Among the most well-known names among those spied on are the faces of the government: the prime minister Giorgia Melonihis sister Ariannain fact, the former partner of the prime minister Andrea Giambrunoi ministers Daniela Santanché e Guido Crosetto.

Arianna Meloni and the dossier case

Why so much fury towards his sister Arianna? He’s the person that the Bari banker spied on most of all…’ asks Vespa. “When this news came out, my sister sent me a photo of her bank account statement. There were 2,100 euros. She wrote to me: ‘If they had asked me, I would have told me how much I had in the account’ , with the laughing face. I think they’re targeting Arianna because she doesn’t have the protections that I have, but hitting her is like hitting me. Unfortunately for them, they’re dealing with another person who doesn’t have any skeletons in their system. wardrobe”, says the Prime Minister in the preview of the journalist’s latest book.

‘The investigations say that the dossier on me began already at the end of the government Draghi when it was understood that I could go into government. On the matter of the dossiers, I expect the judiciary to get to the bottom of it, because, at best, at the basis of this work there was a system of blackmail and extortion, but at worst we are faced with the crime of subversion – continues Meloni – Nobody rule of law can tolerate such a thing.”

Early voting

Vespa asks again: “Someone claims that you are thinking about early elections to capitalize on the consensus.” “They say a lot of things, mostly false – is the prime minister’s response – I stopped reading the press review when I realized that at least half of the things that are written are not written to tell a fact, as it should be, but rather to try to determine one. It’s an attempt at conditioning that I won’t give in to.”

Electoral law

Is the weak point of the premiership reform the lack of a credible electoral law proposal? Another question from the journalist. “I think that the electoral law is an issue of parliamentary competence and then I didn’t like the governments that tried to prepare the electoral law by writing rules tailored to themselves (even if they never worked) and I won’t use the same method. regarding the discussion on the electoral law, I am extremely available to everyone – the Prime Minister replies again – The rules must be fair for everyone, especially for citizens, not useful to some”.