Bignami and the alleged plot against Meloni: "The President should deny it." The response: "An attack bordering on the ridiculous."

Bignami attacks, the Quirinale responds.

The leader of the Brothers of Italy group in the Chamber of Deputies has asked the President of the Republic to deny the news published by La Verità in an article titled "The Quirinale's Plan to Stop Meloni," according to which advisors to the head of state "are calling for initiatives against President Giorgia Meloni and the center-right, also expressing judgments of inadequacy towards the current government majority."

"In particular," adds the leader of the prime minister's party, "La Verità reports in detail about conversations in which this individual advocates for the formation of alternative coalitions such as 'a large national civic list,'" with the stated intent of "preventing a victory for the center-right and Giorgia Meloni in the next general elections." These plans even go so far, Bignami emphasizes, as to hope for a "providential shakeup of the current government."

"We trust that these reconstructions will be denied immediately out of respect for the important role he played, otherwise their validity would have to be deduced," Bignami requested.

The Quirinale Palace responded with a decidedly irritated response, both to Bignami's words and to the content of the article itself: " At the Quirinale, there is astonishment at the statement by the leader of the party with the relative majority in the Chamber of Deputies, which seems to lend credence to yet another attack on the Presidency of the Republic, constructed to the point of being ridiculous ."

In the article in La Verità, by editor Maurizio Belpietro, Francesco Saverio Garofani, a former Democratic Party MP, is identified as one of "Mattarella's advisors who are apparently working hard to trip up Giorgia Meloni and prevent her from completing her term and running again in 2027." "Some have even imagined a moderate center-left candidate to try to repeat Prodi's 1996 success," Belpietro writes. "The operation, regardless of who leads it, would require breaking up the center-right coalition to bring a centrist faction into the arms of its comrades."

"Apparently," Belpietro continues, "there's talk of a 'great national civic list,' a re-edition of the Olive Tree. But that might not be enough, and so Mattarella's advisor, Francesco Saverio Garofani, invokes providence: 'A year and a half isn't enough to find someone to beat the center-right; we need a providential jolt,' whispers the man from the Quirinal ."

(Unioneonline)