Giuseppe Conte: "We are not just fighting Meloni and his associates, we don't even give discounts to those in our field" "We want to give a very strong shock, it's time to clean up and clean the slate. We have to eradicate bad politics," Conte says.

"We renounce our role of government, we return all delegations to the Puglia Region," he adds. The leader of the M5S said this in Bari, after the latest round of arrests. The arrests were made in the city of Bari and in the region of Lampedusa in the south of Italy. The charges against Meloni include money laundering, embezzlement and falsifying documents. The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made so far, police say. The case is being investigated by the Italian Attorney General's Office and the National Commission for the Investigation of Political and Criminal Offences (CICP) The investigation was launched after the arrest of Meloni's son-in-law in March.