The vote on the motion of no confidence presented by the opposition against Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè is underway in the Chamber. The Fratelli d’Italia representative was not present at the Government benches during the discussion.
The closure of the investigation into Visibilia for false corporate communications is expected in the next few days, and then the Prosecutor’s Office – unless Santanchè requests to be questioned and proves the contrary – once the twenty canonical days have expired, will begin the request for indictment . If she has to face a trial, “the minister will make her own reflections” was the line in the centre-right. The first motion to reach the roll-call vote, rejected by the majority of deputies on Wednesday evening with 211 nos, was that against the Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini.
Braga (Pd): Santanchè lied to Parliament, leave it
«Here in Italy last July the minister tried to demonstrate before the Senate that she was the victim of political persecution, of a press campaign and of a distorted and manipulated use of the judiciary», «denying personal involvement, attributing errors to associates and third parties people, trivializing what happened and above all describing themselves as the victim of an absurd machination.” Thus, in the Chamber of Deputies, the president of the Pd group Chiara Braga announced the vote of the dems in favor of the motion of no confidence against the minister Daniela Santanchè. « After eight months those accusations are all still there and where the judiciary has already investigated, the accusations have become more circumstantial and precise such as on the use of the Covid fund, the failure to pay severance pay to workers, the disputes with the tax”.
Silvestri (M5S): the minister signed 18 motions of no confidence
«I don’t see Santanché in the Chamber, I hope it’s an omen…”. Thus begins the intervention of the M5S group leader Francesco Silvestri in the Chamber of Deputies on the motion of no confidence presented by his group and the other oppositions against the Minister of Tourism. «Seeing a government that remains silent in the face of the fact that the minister’s partner and the wife of the second highest state official make a profit of a million from the sale of a house in the space of an hour is something that makes your skin crawl. You are defending Santanché from an intolerable accusation: having used the Covid relief payments improperly, taking them away from those who really needed them. This majority – adds the M5S deputy – which will shortly save the minister’s seat is the same one that created a commission of inquiry into Covid, established only to carry out a political trial against the former prime minister Conte who gave everything if himself in one of the most critical moments for the country.” Silvestri then recalls that Daniela Santanché “requested and voted for 18 motions of no confidence”. And therefore «we are in total hypocrisy. Say no to the citizen’s income and then defend the minister who is accused of having defrauded the INPS which is the body that provides the income. You penalize thousands of people to save one. Compliments!”. Finally, the parliamentarian, after criticizing the attitude of the Government and the centre-right in this and other situations, starting with “the faces and grimaces made while talking about the tragedy of Gaza”, points the finger at “the arrogance of the power, the arrogance of those who defend someone who has never done anything for people and families”, but only for “their own personal interest”
Toti (FdI): the motion against Santanchè is biased
“I am not asking for information from any minister regarding what is happening in the Puglia Region, nor am I asking for the resignation of the President of the Region.” I “limit myself to a reflection” on the issue of no confidence in Minister Daniela Santanchè, “it is not true that the motion poses problems of a political nature, it is written entirely from a legal perspective, or rather from the perspective of a lack of legal knowledge” said FdI group leader Tommaso Foti in his explanation of vote. «We must be careful not to confuse politics with criminal justice», for this reason «I ask my opposition colleagues, instead of throwing headbutts against the wall that the majority is forced to raise, to use their heads» otherwise you will continue to remain «opposition “, he added. Foti, like other parliamentarians in the morning, also pointed the finger at five-star member Chiara Appendino, who spoke in the Chamber yesterday against Santanchè. Foti, in fact, read some of Appendino’s sentences “after the conviction of the Court of Assizes of Appeal relating to the events in Turin”. The FdI group leader then spoke of the “partisanship” of the M5S motion. «The facts that we are talking about today and that the motion talks about have nothing to do with the position of minister, as demonstrated by an unequivocal fact: the competent prosecutor’s office is and will remain that of Milan».
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2024-04-04 09:53:35