“Meloni speaks as party leader and not as prime minister”: the opposition to the attack – Corriere.it

The political climate on the Cospito case is increasingly tense: after the open letter from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who made an appeal “to everyone, politicians, journalists, commentators” to avoid “an escalation that can take us anywhere”, the first reactions. And those of the opposition are very tough. «After days of waiting, the words of the honorable Giorgia Meloni arrived – writes the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta – We thought they were the words of a Prime Minister concerned with building the unity and cohesion of the country in a moment of strong tension . Unfortunately, we have read the words of a party leader who defends his interests beyond the indefensible and, to do so, relaunches instrumental and vicious polemics against the opposition. A letter that rekindles the fire instead of putting it out», says Letta, who signs the note together with the group leaders of the dem in the Senate and in the Chamber, Simona Malpezzi and Debora Serracchiani. For the leaders of the Democratic Party it is “really very serious that the Prime Minister does not consider the dissemination of documents declared by the Dap not to be disclosed as a reason for the resignation of Undersecretary of Justice, Delmastro. And we believe equally serious that he does not feel the need to distance himself from the defamatory use towards the Democratic Party that the coordinator of his party, as well as vice president of Copasir, Donzelli, has made of that confidential news”.

Bonelli: «Does Meloni want unity? Get Donzelli and Delmastro to resign»

There are heavy criticisms of Meloni also from the M5S

: «From the leader who accused the Prime Minister in the midst of the pandemic of ‘criminal behaviour’, comes the appeal to moderate his tone – says Stefano Patuanelli – after the leaders of his party have accused part of the opposition of continuity with the mafia by imaginatively associating undisclosed wiretaps, a suspicion reiterated in his letter. The tones ignited due to reasons that have names and surnames. But actually reading this letter, perhaps it is not Donzelli and Delmastro who have to resign, but Giorgia Meloni”. The M5S leader Giuseppe Conte adds: «Meloi impose the resignation on his loyalists».

For Roberto Speranza, Article 1, «today Giorgia Meloni makes a very serious mistake, because he decides to put the fact that he is a party leader before the fact that he is the prime minister of our country. And he defends something that is indefensible.’ Angelo Bonelli, co-spokesman of Green Europe and deputy of Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra,

who personally reported Donzelli to the prosecutor’s office, reacts: «Does Meloni want unity? Then have Delmastro resigned, who accuses the opposition of bowing to the mafia and who, together with Donzelli, used sensitive acts as if they were postcards». Instead for the vice president of the Action-IV Federation, Elena Bonetti“that President Meloni has called on politics to assume responsibility for a strong position in the face of the attacks that are being perpetrated against the institutions it is a dutiful, important act, to which the entire parliamentary sphere must respondstarting with those who exercise government responsibilities today, in particular therefore the members of his party and of his majority”.

Salvini: «We need calm, tranquillity, serenity»

The comments of the majority are of a completely different tone. The Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini approves Meloni’s invitation. “Well, we say it right from the start,” says the secretary of the League, answering a question about Prime Minister Meloni who asked the Brothers of Italy and everyone to tone down the Cospito case. «I wasn’t passionate about the Donzelli-Serracchiani debate. Since violence is involved and someone brings the mafia and terrorism into question» we need «calm, tranquillity, serenity. The government is working well, there is no need for clashes.” adds Salvini at an electoral gazebo of the League in Milan. And a promise comes from the parliamentary ranks of the Brothers of Italy: «The Brothers of Italy groups in Parliament accept the appeal of the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and hope that all the political forces, starting from those who already contest it, will the same to prevent an already hot situation from becoming incandescent», write the presidents of the Brothers of Italy groups in the Chamber and Senate, Tommaso Foti and Lucio Malan. «FdI – Foti and Malan promise – will immediately tone it down, deeming it necessary to encourage collaboration between the parties». The Vice President of the Senate Maurice Gasparri he finds the appeal of the President of the Republic, Giorgia Meloni, to lower the tone more than acceptable. An invitation that is explicitly addressed to three hundred and sixty degrees, erga omnes. None excluded. We need more calm both from the majority and from the opposition, also because the climate is dangerously warming up. And when uninformed kids display posters in which they accuse the President of the Republic and other authorities of the murderer, it means that we are bordering on a dangerous threshold».