Marco Travaglio lit the fuse on Saturday evening during the show 'Accordi & Disaccordi'.
Marco Marsilio's furious reaction the following day also attracted controversy surrounding 'electoral silence'.
According to Marsilio, the director of Il Fatto held "a rally peppered with slander, followed closely by the journalist Andrea Scanzi.
In particular, Travaglio, a well-known serial defamer convicted several times for this crime, slandered me by describing me, together with my wife, as being investigated and convicted in the first instance for a crime that I never committed and for which I was never investigated or much less convicted". Not only that: Travaglio will pay, see you in Court".
Golden opportunity for the opposition to attack the center-right candidate in Abruzzo.
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"Marsilio fuels the political controversy to violate the electoral silence. After all, he is in good company, given that the rule of silence was also violated by the vice president of the Chamber Fabio Rampelli with a long endorsement post published last night on Facebook, as well as by Tajani with a tweet this morning, from Salvini with a video post on Instagram and from Meloni herself who yesterday publicly celebrated the victory of the Italian national rugby team. Demonstrating how little respect for the rules is in the DNA of the right", he wrote the Abruzzo senator of the 5 Star Movement Gabriella Di Girolamo.
To Marsilio's aid comes the president of the Publishing Commission of the Chamber Federico Mollicone, then Ethel Sigismondi (FdI) "false and highly defamatory attacks";
for Fabrizio Rampelli "they remain communists, violent and liars, they violate the rules because they feel protected by impunity. They are certain they are above the law";
We hope that Agcom will take measures as soon as possible to condemn this unacceptable abuse of power, used contra legem and as a truncheon to damage those who do not think like them". But there was also criticism against Marsilio from social media users: "In the meantime this alleged violation of electoral silence by Travaglio allowed you, president, to violate it in turn.
Thank him instead", urged M5s senator Gabriella Di Girolamo again in a comment. "What if the complaint of the violation of electoral silence was itself the violation of electoral silence?", asks a user in another comment. " Remove the propaganda photo, Pres. Marsilio.
His is also a violation of electoral silence", writes another citizen. There are numerous comments of the same tenor, but there is no shortage of those in support of Marsilio and those critical of Travaglio.
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