«Against me gossip and malice, but I have broad shoulders»- Corriere.it

“Now between nominations and gossip, we don’t miss anything”. Arianna Meloni, sister of the Prime Minister, external to the Sheet all her irritation at being continually brought up, whether it be gossip or choices by the top management of state-owned companies. The last one to be attributed to her is Giuseppina Di Foggia, Terna’s new managing director. «Yes – she explains to the newspaper – I was amazed by reading the newspapers. Oh God, is it possible that I know her and I don’t remember her? So I wrote to Giorgia: do I know Terna’s new CEO? She replied: I don’t know, I think not ». Shy by character and by choice given her illustrious kinship, Arianna is no longer surprised to be drawn into her midst: «I think the poison will still continue against me and against us. Just think of what happened recently.

But these appointments are not the things that bother her the most. There is that story of gossip that invested the deputy of FdI Rachele Silvestri who, two weeks ago, felt compelled to write a letter to the Courier to “put an end to the slanders circulating in the chats” (relating to the insinuation that the son was not conceived with a partner but with an influential member of parliament from the Brothers of Italy). Someone mentioned, albeit indirectly and allusively, the name of the minister Francesco Lollobrigida, who is the legitimate wife of Arianna Meloni. Here the reaction is harsh: «Yes, we had to put up with this too, but we have broad shoulders. Too bad that no newspaper has written clearly such a thing. So we’d go on vacation with the money from the lawsuit settlement. Indeed no, I correct myself: we would have donated them all to charity: much better ».