A near brawl between the undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro and the centre-right candidate for mayor of Biella Marzio Olivero of Fratelli d'Italia.
Repubblica and Corriere della Sera tell the story.
It would have happened on an election evening on Friday evening in Biella, at Mebo. Delmastro, it is said, confronted Olivero head-on, «so much so that the undersecretary's escort was forced to intervene twice (there are those who remember three) to separate the two people. Reason for the dispute? An appointment of an auditor of the local Savings Bank, to which Olivero had given the green light."
“How dare you make a political appointment without consulting me?” would have been the gist of Delmastro's complaint.
The clash, according to the two newspapers, would have shaken the candidate of his own party, who "therefore yesterday decided to convene all the forces of the coalition to ask, essentially, if there were still the conditions to carry on with his own name" .
In La Stampa Olivero then tried to throw water on the fire by talking about a "fake" argument. As for the intervention of the escort, «we did it lightly, the escort is always on Delmastro and they must have thought we were arguing seriously, but that's not the case. Nothing has changed between me and the undersecretary."
(Unioneonline)
