«I am the most present. We had to get off at a certain time, I don’t know if they voted earlier»- Corriere.it

Inform yourself, I am the one with the most appearances ever. I’ve never missed a committee since I was elected, I’ve never been late. I’m the first in the Senate and I’m the last out. I practically close Palazzo Madama…. Claudio Lotito, senator of Forza Italia and president of SS Lazio, does not agree and rejects the sender of the accusations against the blue party of having determined, with the absence of its senators, the ko of the majority in the Budget Committee on Labor Law.

For Lotito it was a trivial mishap: I stick to what the group leader tells me, conspiracy theories are useless in these contexts. We had to get off at a certain time and we got off, I don’t know if they voted earlier. The moment our group leader notifies the president of the commission and says we are ready in 15 minutes… I don’t know after what happened. For the rapporteur of the Labor Law, the FDI senator Paola Mancini, it was an accident that should not have happened … If Senator Mancini had been part of the Budget Commission she would not have given that interpretation. There’s no point in making a film about this. The facts matter. Remember, facts not words, comments Lotito.

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