The specter of Russian funds continues to loom over the election campaign. Even if so far there is no involvement of Italian parties in the US intelligence report – which speaks of more than 300 million dollars in funding sent by Moscow to political forces in some twenty countries, including Europe – Washington’s revelations fuel the political debate controversy ahead of the September 25 vote. And everyone is looking at Palazzo San Macuto, headquarters of Copasir, the Parliamentary Commission for the Security of the Republic, where the Delegated Authority for the Security of the Republic, Franco Gabrielli, will be tomorrow morning.
Therefore, it is not excluded that the story may have a sequel. If yesterday he hypothesized the existence of other dossiers, today the head of Farnesina, Luigi Di Maio, announces: “The updates have arrived that we should have received as Itamaraty”. The minister advises “prudence”, but again asks for a commission of inquiry into relations between Moscow and the Italian parties, and does not give up on evoking “many shadows on the League’s relations with Putin”.
After all, the agreement between the League and Putin’s party is still valid today,” he adds, asking himself: “Why does the League, and therefore the right-wing coalition with Meloni and Berlusconi, continue to defend Putin’s interests and not the Italians? “. Not only that: the leader of the Civic Commitment recalls that in 2018 Carroccio presented an amendment to remove the ban on a party receiving money from abroad, and still wonders:” Why did the League want to receive money? or other entities from foreign states? “.
The answers come from the person in question. “I’m not worried at all about Gabrielli’s hearing tomorrow. I’m very calm. I’ve never asked for or taken money from abroad,” says Salvini, commenting, “Let Italians vote for Italian interests and foreigners do their own business.”
Even for Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, “for now” the news about Moscow’s interference in the election campaign “is just gossip, Russia has given a lot of money to Italian communists and that’s the only sure thing,” said an interviewee. by LaPresse, excluding “absolutely that there were subsidies from Russia or others. As far as Italian law allowed me, I was the sole funder of the IF”.
A response to Di Maio, but of a different nature, comes from the leader of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte. Who, without ever mentioning it, seems to address an obvious invitation to the minister: “We do not launch inferences and insinuations in the electoral campaign. Above all, those who have an institutional responsibility have the double and triple responsibility of managing everything with care. polluting the election campaign”. Also for the Minister of the South and Territorial Cohesion Mara Carfagna, interviewed in the LaPresse Elections Special, “if there is an ‘Italy chapter’ in the Russian party’s funding dossier, it should be disclosed before the vote because it is certain that voters they have an opinion ‘, because ‘I doubt the Italians want to send people who were paid by Putin to Parliament’.
Returning to Copasir, and in view of Gabrielli’s hearing tomorrow, the Democratic Party attacks the chairman of the Committee Adolfo Urso. Who “instead of being the guarantor of Parliament goes around the world to act as guarantor of his party, the Brothers of Italy, confusing the institutional mission with politics”, says the vice-president of the European Parliament Pina Picierno.
Source: IL Tempo
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