Clashes under the shadow of the Hill. The political controversy was sparked by several quotes attributed by the newspaper ‘La Verità’ to Francesco Saverio Garofani, defense advisor to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, and centered on alleged maneuvers to block the way for Giorgia Meloni. In fact, the newspaper directed by Maurizio Belpietro headlined on the front page ‘Mattarella’s advisers begin to make plans. Quirinale’s plan to stop Meloni’, explains that ‘those close to Mattarella want to hinder the prime minister. One of his advisors is thinking about creating a civil list that appeals to the centrist majority to take them to the left’. This thesis is supported by a series of statements reported in two articles said to have been made by former dem MPs yesterday, on the day of the Supreme Defense Council meeting (with Garofani sitting next to the Head of State), which Belpietro confirmed, and for which the leader of the FdI group in the DPR, Galeazzo Bignami, called for accountability. “We believe that this reconstruction will be rejected without delay out of respect for the important role it holds and if not, must conclude its validity”, we read in the deputy’s statement which, shortly afterward, prompted a response from Colle. In the Quirinale, said a brief note from the press office, “there was astonishment at the declaration of the leader of the group in the House of the party of the relative majority which seemed to give credence to another attack on the Presidency of the Republic that was building close to the ridiculous”.
We talked about it at 4pm, the show hosted by Paolo Del Debbio on Rete 4. For Mediaset journalist Paolo Liguori, there is a fundamental piece of the mosaic that is missing. “Garofani was a member of the Democratic Party for three legislative bodies and then became a defense advisor at the Quirinale. Is this normal? And in this political affair, on one side the Truth and on the other Garofani, should I believe one or the other?”, said Liguori. “I bow to the Head of State, I am a supporter of Mattarelli, but not in the face of the words spoken by a member of the board and conveyed by the director Belpietro – he continued – Because between Garofani and Belpietro I who is not anyone’s leader or involved in politics, believes in Belpietro and Garofani is silent. whose protagonist’s truth is lost. It seems very important.”
