The Antitrust announces the device following which Vittorio Sgarbi's resignation as undersecretary of Culture was triggered.
"He has carried out professional activities as an art critic, in matters connected with the government position, as specified in the motivation, in favor of public and private entities", in violation of the Frattini Law on conflict of interest", is the gist of the document. And it is enough to unleash the opposition and make the Democratic Party ask for the intervention of Minister Sangiuliano in Parliament to clarify the whole affair.
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'I received a letter from the Antitrust that based on two anonymous letters I cannot hold a conference at Porro'.
'I will certainly appeal to the TAR against the Antitrust' he announces.
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The majority tries to tone down the controversy by avoiding comments. "It's his choice," says Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, while the head of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, chooses silence.
The Democratic Party with Irene Manzi requests that the head of Culture explain to Parliament "the criteria with which he attributed the delegations to the undersecretary as the minister is aware of the plethora of tasks and the numerous positions in cultural institutions held by the resigning Sgarbi, promptly listed in the decides".
M5s leader Giuseppe Conte is also harsh and takes it out directly on Prime Minister Meloni, who is guilty of not having intervened to put an end to a situation that has "damaged the image of Italy".
Words against which the now former undersecretary for Culture lashes out: "Conte - says Sgarbi - is a professor without qualifications and without merit, with a pornographic curriculum".
Despite the controversy, the person who considers the matter now closed is the Prime Minister herself.
Once the resignation is official, Meloni will decide what to do even if, according to the majority, the replacement of Sgarbi (one of the candidates in pole position is Ilaria Cavo of Noi Moderati) may not be so immediate, but perhaps part of a package broader set-up of the government team.
If anything after the European elections.
In fact, other requests would also arrive on the table at Palazzo Chigi, from the Mef and the Ministry of the University, to have an additional undersecretary.
Nothing decided, but just a series of reasoning, to which is added the possibility that some ministers could also run for a seat in Strasbourg or that the name that Italy will indicate as the future European commissioner could be chosen from the government team .
Corriere della Sera hypothesizes that the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti could be moving to Brussels.
A name that has also been circulating in recent months, while the maneuver was being approved in Parliament.
Just as the names of Raffaele Fitto and Guido Crosetto had circulated.
At that point, if the candidate were a minister of the current government, nothing excludes the prime minister from being able to take control of more boxes in the executive.
Among other things, as Angelo Bonelli recalls, the cases of Andrea Delmastro, undersecretary of Justice sent to trial for revelation of official secrecy, and Daniela Santachè, Minister of Tourism who ended up in the storm, have a 'weighing' impact on the government's image. with his company Visibilia: "The resignation of Undersecretary Sgarbi is a necessary and necessary act after the Antitrust decision. But it would be a gesture of political and institutional hygiene - underlines the co-spokesperson of the Greens - if these were also followed by the resignation of Santanche ' and Delmastro involved in embarrassing judicial investigations".
To defend the art critic is Matteo Renzi who in his editorial in the Riformista underlines how Sgarbi, unlike other government officials, has resigned: "we recognize in him - he writes - a dignity that very few people in this government have ".
The IV leader quotes Delmastro, the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida and the Minister of Economic Development Adolfo Urso: "In the end - observes Renzi - Sgarbi did himself a favor by leaving such a team. And at least he demonstrated that he knows the meaning of the word dignity".
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