What is happening on the media and judicial tussle concerning Undersecretary Armando Siri
While the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, leaving for China, announced the intention of resolving the case of the Carroccio Undersecretary Armando Siri upon his return, looking him “in the eye” and asking him to “share with him the final decision”, which it would be that – already announced on the first page of the Fatto Quotidiano – to remove him from the government, as claimed by the pentastellato vice president of the same council Luigi Di Maio amidst the protests of the Northern League counterpart Matteo Salvini; while, as I was saying, all this was happening in Palazzo Chigi and its surroundings, the judicial reporter of La Verita Giacomo Amadori collected among the magistrates of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Rome a resounding and sensational denial of the interception that he had mediated and politically troubled, already making him lose his transport delegations,
In the documents available to the magistrates of Rome, dismayed by the suspicion that the press advances have fueled a leak of news from their offices, which is also destined to bring the government to the brink of a crisis, there is no interception of the phone call in which Paolo Arata would have told his son Francesco that the modification to the budget and other provisions unsuccessfully attempted by Undersecretary Siri to extend incentives to wind farms of the type owned in Sicily by Arata himself in partnership with Vito Nicastri had cost him 30 thousand euros. Who is a prisoner accused of connivance with the fugitive leader of the mafia Matteo Messina Denaro.
Corriere della Sera, Repubblica and all the other newspapers that have written about that interception, giving it a certainty, complete with quotes, bringing hay to the grillini campaign against Siri and all the leaguers who defend it, also accused by the magistrate Nino Di Matteo of strengthen the mafia with their guarantee, they would therefore have at least incurred an injury. In which the Prime Minister would have finished dipping the bread too, preparing himself, according to the intentions deriving from his words, or at least derived from the Fatto Quotidiano, to induce Siri to resign, or to expel him from the government. And this thanks to a politically unsuspected precedent: the ouster of Vittorio Sgarbi from a center-right government chaired by Silvio Berlusconi, with Northern League participation,
Except for further surprises, that is, subject to denials of the denials of the magistrates of Rome who carry out investigations on Siri, and have yet to question him, this story is morally, ethically, politically grotesque. Likewise, I would like to say about the controversies that have developed, and fueled by Salvini himself with declarations or replies that he could have spared, on the decision of the League’s vice president of the Council and Minister of the Interior to choose the feast of April 25 to inaugurate a police station in Corleone , in Sicily. And to be able to prefer this ceremony to all the celebrations of the Resistance and the Liberation of Italy, 74 years ago, from the Nazi-Fascist occupation: events somewhat hastily liquidated by the leader of the Carroccio as reissues of the “derby between fascists and communists”,
So Salvini, like it or not, contributed to creating a climate in which the madness, so to speak, of an improvised Mussolini celebration in Piazzale Loreto by Lazio fans on a football trip to Milan has also matured.
Even at the cost of appearing politically blasphemous, I think that in most of the country, even among the survivors of the events of April 25, 1945, the direct and indirect effects of the price of petrol rose to two euros per liter in the “bridge” of May 1st, the safest or among the safest of the Italian ones without the quotation marks.
