Cospito, Meloni speaks: «Resignation of Delmastro? No assumptions. Let everyone tone down, even FdI"
«Institutions under threat, the situation is worrying. The State is united in defense of legality"
" There are no grounds for Undersecretary Delmastro to resign ."
Giorgia Meloni says it, who after days of silence intervenes on the Cospito case and invites everyone - including FdI politicians - to tone down.
«For several days I have been accused – writes the prime minister in a letter to Corriere – of reticence in relation to the heated debate on Alfredo Cospito held in the Chamber. I have not intervened so far because I have tried not to fuel a controversy that I consider counterproductive for everyone. The tones have raised too much and I invite everyone, starting with the exponents of FdI, to bring them back to the level of a frank but respectful confrontation ».
On Delmastro: «I don't think there are in any way the conditions for the resignation that someone has asked for. Moreover, the information contained in the documentation which is the subject of the dispute, which the Ministry of Justice has clarified is not classified, has even been anticipated by some media . In my opinion, there are clearly instrumental aspects in this fuss. I find it strange that we are scandalized because Parliament has discussed documents not covered by secrecy, while for years private conversations - these so not to be disclosed - often become public domain. I find the indignation of the Democratic Party singular for a certainly excessive accusation, when however the left in the past has leveled against yours truly, leader of the opposition, the accusations of being the moral instigator of deaths at sea or of leading a subversive party, to name a few someone".
Again: «I find it paradoxical that we cannot hold left-wing parties to account for their choices, when objectively the origin of the controversies of these days is the visit to Cospito by a qualified representative of the Democratic Party, at a time when the prisoner intensified communication efforts with the outside world , as emerges from the notes of the judicial authority which ruled on the case. And what strikes me, even more than that visit, is that after having taken note of the relationship between Alfredo Cospito and the mafia bosses in a harsh prison regime, and knowing full well how much it is convenient for the mafia to question the 41bis, very authoritative exponents of the Pd have continued to ask for the revocation of the institute for Cospito, pretending not to understand the implications that this choice would have had above all in terms of the fight against organized crime".
The prime minister then raises the alarm and calls for unity: "While the majority and the opposition are squabbling, the climate around us is dangerously overheating, and spares no one, as demonstrated by the posters that appeared yesterday in Rome which define the President of the Republic and members of various governments. Yesterday it was necessary to assign the escort to Donzelli and to the undersecretaries Delmastro and Ostellari, and threats to the institutions appear everywhere. We are facing a disturbing situation that risks having serious consequences, a scenario that must see the State united in defense of legality. This is the appeal I address to politicians, journalists and commentators ».
(Unioneonline/L)
