In the Senate the information of the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè after the Report investigation that involved her companies.
"I affirm on my honor that I was not reached by any guarantee notice and that indeed to exclude it I asked my lawyers to verify that there were no doubts," Santanchè stressed.
"I hope you will acknowledge that in the face of the request of some opposition groups and I say some and not all, I immediately gave the willingness to report what some consider even considered excessive," the minister said.
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Political exploitation is taking place against me. I am here to defend my honor and that of my son. I am here for the respect it owes to this place and to the citizens we represent," Santanchè said.
From the press come "dirty and disgusting practices", underlined the Minister of Tourism. "I thank the ministers and the prime minister for their solidarity. I preferred not to let the government bear the consequences of a campaign of real hatred against me".
"I have been doing business since I was 25 years old, I started from Cuneo with the strength of work counting only on myself, I have collected important entrepreneurial successes, I am proud to have given work to many people. I invested in advertising, entertainment and then publishing. I was able to write pages of success," Santanchè continued. "I have never appropriated anything that does not belong to me, I have never abused my top positions in companies, I challenge anyone to prove otherwise".
"I have resorted to tools made available to all companies by the laws still in force. My restructuring project is much more virtuous than that of other companies in the same conditions. Being an entrepreneur and also a politician does not mean that he is forbidden to resort to the laws in force, I have not had favoritism but neither must there be an undue ad personam penalty", said Santanchè".
Going into the merits of the companies, "from Ki group srl I collected 27 thousand euros gross in three years, an average of 9 thousand euros per year for the previous years, between 2014 and 2018 in which the company made positive operating margins, I received from the parent company a gross annual value of about 100 thousand euros", said Santanchè underlining that these are not the "stratospheric compensations" of which we have spoken.
"I have never had any control in the bioligic food sector as many media have told," the minister continued. "In 2010 the group of the organic sector (of which we speak) was taken not by me but by the father of my son with whom I no longer had any connection and in any case with his intervention the workers had 12 months of pay".
"For this complex recovery operation" of the 4 Visibilia companies "I have made my assets available, for all this I would have almost expected applause and I challenge chiuqnue to indicate a large number of people who commit all the assets to save the companies".
"What remains at the end: notes of color on my clothing, for the houses, for my friendships, for the nicknames I have been given. They also mistakenly accused me of having taken fines in prohibited parking when the fines were of the carabinieri weapon to which I had given on loan one of my cars to give up an escort one. I don't have any fines to pay." This was said by the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè, speaking at the Senate.
The Senate hall listened with great attention and composure to the information of Minister Daniela Santanchè, which lasted almost 40 minutes, and ended with a brief applause from the benches of the majority and the government. Two other brief applauses from the majority to the minister during her speech. The first time when he invited everyone to "react" to the attack of the newspapers "that could affect any citizen". The second when she said that to hit her are people who frequent her entertainment venues. There was twice a prolonged buzz from the opposition benches when she attacked the newspaper Domani for today's article stating that she is under investigation.
REPLICAS
Patuanelli: M5s motion of no confidence filed in Santanché. " A few minutes ago we presented a motion of no confidence in him". This was stated by the leader of the Five Star Movement in the Senate Stefano Patuanelli at the end of his speech in the Chamber after the information of Minister Santanchè. In the Chamber the chorus of the pentastellato group 'Resignation, resignation' was triggered.
Borghi: we do not ask for resignation, evaluation to you. " We want to emancipate ourselves" from a past in which resignations were requested even without warranty notices. Enrico Borghi said this while speaking in the Senate Chamber for the Third Pole and citing a series of cases, from Josefa Idem to Ignazio Marino. "We do not subscribe - he added - to a partisan logic, we grasp the political data" and "we do not ask you to resign as you have asked but we say that every evaluation is in his hands and in the hands of the president of the council who assumes responsibility and if there is more draws his evaluations the evaluation is all in his hands ".
Misiani: Santanchè be consistent and resign. " We were impressed by the minister's words. We are not the only ones judging by the nervousness on the government benches. Unlike many other groups, the principle of the presumption of innocence always applies to us. But we have a duty to discuss political expediency. We have not had clear answers and at this point we will ask the competent ministers, Calderone, Urso and Giorgetti. Resigning as minister would be an important and significant gesture. And these are not my words, but those of President Meloni on the Josefa Idem case. A gallery of shadows and ugliness has not been clarified by the minister. Our question has not been answered: the EUR 2.7 million loan has not been clarified. It is a serious problem of political expediency: can a minister have a debt to the state? In our opinion, no, it cannot remain in place. Minister Santanchè today in this Chamber we ask you to be consistent and to resign". This was declared by the senator of the Pd Antonio Misiani.
Romeo (Lega): gave all the necessary clarifications. We thank you for being willing to come to the Chamber and put your face on it. An act of transparency that is not due, because it cannot be a journalistic investigation that determines whether or not a minister comes to report to the House. We find this worrying. Today it is the weight of media accusations against people that counts, not the quality or quantity of the accusations. We in the League know something about this: do you remember the Metropol case?" This was stated by the leader of the League in the Senate Massimiliano Romeo as part of the discussion after the information of Minister Daniela Santanché. After a brief protest in the Chamber, the senator addressed the opposition benches saying: "if you are not afraid of what I say, shut up". "We will not enter - he added - into the merits of the accusations that have been made against her. He gave all the necessary clarifications. Has no one ever seen a judicial document? What we are talking about in this House today." During the speech, Romeo also addressed the senators of Italia Viva saying: "you of Italia Viva have not thought twice to send Salvini to trial".
Zanettin (FI): only press rumors, let's close it here "The questions at the center of Minister Santanché's information have been posed only by investigations and press rumors: this should be enough to close the discussion here
. This is the reason why Forza Italia, with the parent company Ronzulli, has expressed an opinion strongly opposed to the information: Parliament is not a court or a prosecutor's office". This was stated by the senator of Forza Italia Pierantonio Zanettin speaking in the Chamber after the information of Minister Santanché. "As for the phantom registration in the register of suspects - he continued -, the dissemination of the news in the press, moreover with reference to a secret investigation, is barbarism and judicial populism. Have we not been taught anything by so many summary media trials, starting with those involving Mr Berlusconi, which have done so much damage to people and which then resulted in so many soap bubbles? If it were to be yet another leak, it would be good for the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office to make the necessary investigations. We have the utmost respect for the efforts and sacrifices made by the Minister for his enterprises and express our solidarity with the Minister. Those who wanted this information hoping for a non-compact majority were disappointed", he concluded.
Magni (Avs): we demand his resignation. " Her self-defense did not convince us and we believe that she has not clarified and even in some cases evaded the questions we are asking her these days". So Senator Tino Magni, speaking for AVS in the context of the discussion in the Senate after the information of Minister Santanché. Magni cited the case of Josefa Idem for whom the center-right has in the past called for her resignation as minister. "You - he concluded - show a certain arrogance, a contempt for the rules. I believe he cannot continue to represent this nation. As far as we are concerned, we ask that he no longer represent her and therefore resigns".
De Poli: We renew our trust in you. " Our position is fully consistent with our history: we are guarantors and ours is not a one-way guarantee". This was said by the leader of Noi Moderati, Antonio De Poli, in the Senate Chamber after the information of Minister Santanché. "We renew our confidence in you - said De Poli - and we hope that your intervention, for which we thank you, will contribute to unravel the climate: we cannot think that Parliament will turn into a courtroom".