Meloni, the distancing on the La Russa Jr. case and the attempt to lower the tone on justice. Today the interview with Mattarella-Corriere.it

The taking away from Ignatius LaRussa it is clear. And it reveals how strong the concern of Giorgia Meloni for the judicial events that are making the government dance. Three names, three different cases, but united by the same common thread: membership of the premier’s party. To the tenant of Palazzo Chigi it does not escape how the storm of recent days has revealed a state of weakness of the executive and shown the opposition that justice can be its Achilles’ heel. And since no one can swear it’s over here, Meloni tries to turn the clock back forward. Although still irritated, the prime minister has understood that throwing the country back thirty years to the war between Berlusconi and the “red robes” would primarily harm her government.

«We can’t spend the summer with the opposition attacking and the newspapers headlining Delmastro, Santanchè and La Russa», is Meloni’s concern. He certainly won’t give up on justice reform, he promised it to the voters and he won’t go back. You reclaim the much-discussed note from «Chigi sources» which accused a part of the robes of having taken the field against the government, but since you are convinced that the magistrates are no longer as compact as they used to be, you want to get there «with them» and not against. From now on, even if fromAnm should “other provocations” arrive, the government will not have to fall into the trap. This is the suggestion that the undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano he has been repeating to the prime minister for days, urging her not to respond blow by blow and to “avoid opposition”. President Sergio Mattarella yesterday he called the heads of the Cassation to Colle. A meeting of symbolic value read as a signal at a time when the judiciary feels under attack. And today, on the sidelines of the Supreme Defense Council, there could be an opportunity for an exchange of views with Meloni, whose decision to tone down was appreciated at the Quirinale.

Meloni publicly said what Mattarella thinks and that is that Ignatius LaRussasecond position in the state, is nothing short of wrong to take sides in defense of his son Leonard Apache, attacking the girl who reported him for rape. When yesterday La Russa heard from her premier to thank her for having referred to the suffering of her father, she justified herself: «I didn’t want to attack the girl, I was angry with her lawyer. But it’s true, I got the tone wrong when I was hot». But if Meloni does not pose “the problem of the times”, La Russa continues to think that the complaint came after 40 days not by chance, but because after that time the camera recordings are deleted. The lawyers of the La Russa family are convinced that they can demonstrate, thanks to new witnesses, that “Leonardo has not raped anyone”. To agitate (very) the majority is also Daniela Santanche. For her, resignation does not exist, “Giorgia has placed a tombstone above her”. However, the League unloads it and many, even within the Fdi, have dropped it. But the senator remains convinced that she “didn’t do anything” and she does not intend to move: “Why resign me? I don’t have a trial, I haven’t received the guarantee notice and, if she were to arrive too, it would not lead to Meloni’s resignation ».

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