There is a storm over the appointment of a collaborator of the Northern League Undersecretary for Education Rossano Sasso.
The case is raised by former minister Lucia Azzolina who points the finger at the appointment in question: "Pasquale Vespa is a professor accused in a criminal case for repeated defamation in the press and serious threats, he has spent the last two years of his life to publicly insult me, foment verbal assaults and sexual innuendo. Threatening me with death. A cyberbully, to all intents and purposes ".
The M5s lines up compactly at her side and the Pd gives her support.
But Sasso sends the accusations back to the sender: "Mrs Azzolina is not new to attacks against teachers and school managers who have expressed dissent against her policies".
The undersecretary recalls how "Professor Pasquale Vespa, trade unionist and national leader of the movement of precarious teachers, has always represented a thorn in the side for the honorable Azzolina and for hostile policies towards the precarious world. A symbol of workers' rights. weaker ones, which led evidently hard and uncomfortable battles, which now he would like to pass off as a stalker and a harasser. We are sure that the work of the judiciary will bring facts and dynamics back into the right perspective ".
Azzolina brings up the minister Patrizio Bianchi: "I wonder if he is aware of the fact that Vespa is being hired in his Cabinet. And what do you think".
As for Vespa, he explains: "He tried to hide the contents by removing them from his pages, this did not prevent him from being charged in a trial that will begin shortly. But it is not a question of legality. Or, at least, not only. It is. a question of opportunity and civilization. In the evening this gentleman unleashes his sexual instincts on mouths and red lipsticks and threatens to kill a government official, the next morning he introduces himself as an 'educator' at school ".
"A very serious fact", comments the pentastellato deputy Davide Serritella.
"This is a character who has spent the last two years making macabre videos with scenes taken from the well-known film 'Nightmare' with which he essentially sent death threats to the then minister Lucia Azzolina", adds the senator of the Movement. 5 Stars Alessandra Maiorino.
The parliamentarians and parliamentarians of the Movement members of the Equal Opportunities group take "note of the statements of Undersecretary Rossano Sasso, who defends his choice, but while waiting for the judiciary to take its course, we also reiterate that for us the appointment of Vespa is inadmissible" .
For the members of the Democratic Party in the Culture Committee in the Chamber, "this is not a question of freedom of expression, nor of satire, but of serious and repeated sexist threats. We find it unacceptable that those who have demonstrated behavior can find space within the institutions. deplorable of not knowing where political dissent ends and insult and verbal violence begin ".