In the Cospito case, embarrassment grows within the government majority after the statements made in the Chamber by John Donzellicoordinator of Fratelli d’Italia, who revealed confidential documents received from his party colleague and undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro. Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, in fact, denies Donzelli on the confidentiality of the documents, while the opposition is asking for the resignation of the two Melonians.
Nordio: “Prosecutor investigates Donzelli revelations”
“We won’t stand behind the magistrates of Rome, we won’t find the alibi of the investigation to say that we will wash our hands of it, but there are procedural limits, let’s try to understand what these limits are within which, once the investigation is complete, we will respond to the Chambers and where we will be asked to respond”. This was stated by the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, in the Senate chamber, referring to the file opened by the Roman prosecutors on the statements of the Fdi deputy Giovanni Donzelli, after the complaint by Angelo Bonelli, of the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra.
Nordio then remembered that he had “arranged internal investigations” to the ministry, on what was disclosed by Donzelli, “as soon as the investigation is completed I am available to report in the appropriate offices”, he assured.
“There is an investigation opened by the Rome prosecutor’s office for the crimes of disclosure and use of professional secrecythis news represents a new element which at this point, due to due respect for the work of the investigators, we cannot fail to take into account” he had said shortly before in the Chamber.
Delmastro: “I’m not resigning, unclassified information to Donzelli”
The information given to Giovanni Donzelli on Alfredo Cospito and two other prisoners under 41 bis “were contained in a report by the Dap, made to give the government the opportunity to make the most appropriate choices. If Giachetti had asked me for them, I would have done the same, I would have given them to him as to Donzelli, since it was an unclassified document. If Parliament asks the government for things, the government responds”. The Undersecretary of Justice at the Fdi quota says so, Andrea Delmastrointercepted a few steps from Montecitorio.
“These are documents legitimately present at the ministry” in via Arenula. To those who ask him if he and Donzelli are considering resigning, “no, we don’t think so – replies Delmastro -. Was the report made to read to Donzelli in the house they share together? “No, orally and in the parliamentary arena“.
To those who ask him if he has heard from the premier in the last few hours Giorgia Meloni and if they have a close confrontation, “no – he replies – I haven’t heard from you, if you want a confrontation we will have it…”.
Risk of resignation
As mentioned, they meander within the majority disgruntled e embarrassment. From inside Fratelli d’Italia Fabio Rampelli, ‘commissariat’ from Meloni in Lazio, does not miss the opportunity to define the two rising stars of the party as ‘institutional illiterates’. In the League, no one has reiterated the timid solidarity expressed by Salvini towards the FdI managers at the center of the controversy. Berlusconi – in conversation with the force supporters – defined the speech of Meloni’s representative as “inappropriate”. “Let’s say that – the blue Mulé slyly commented – if the Speaker of the Chamber decides to institute the Jury of Honour, there is no fumus persecutionis against Donzelli”.
A government representative tells Corriere della Sera: “In Draghi’s time, Durigon was forced to resign as undersecretary for much less”.
