“I’m still in shock, I didn’t expect an inadmissible proposal from the president of the Senate.”
Dafne Musolino, senator of Italia Viva elected in Sicily, explains it to Repubblica.
It was Matteo Renzi, yesterday afternoon, who revealed the fact, that is, a lunch between La Russa and the opposition parliamentarian, in the restaurant of Palazzo Madama, in which the second highest office of the State would have asked the senator to pass in the majority, voting first on the Giorgia Meloni’s legal advisor, Francesco Saverio Marini, as judge of the Constitutional Court.
«We were at lunch at the Senate restaurant, but at different tables. Then he approached me and asked to talk to me for a few minutes – he says -. At that point we sat at another table, alone. There he asked me if I was available to make a move to the majority.”
«We didn’t even get to the point of discussing the proposal in detail, because I was shocked and said: no, enough.
I didn’t try to relaunch. It was an inadmissible proposal: I was elected in opposition and I intend to stay there – she concludes -. I think the next time he sees me at the restaurant, La Russa will make the most of it.”
La Russa’s spokesperson: “Renzi lies and is exceeding every limit”
«Senator Matteo Renzi lies knowing he is lying and involves – I don’t know how voluntarily – his colleague Musolino (elected with another list and then moved to IV) to do the same. With all possible respect, Renzi is exceeding every limit. President La Russa never had lunch with Senator Musolino but above all he never spoke with her (and with others) about votes of any kind.” Thus Emiliano Arrigo, spokesperson for the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa. In a note he also clarifies that «in the Senate restaurant, President La Russa, as many present can testify, simply greeted (for no more than thirty seconds) the senator who was sitting at the table next to him and like the president himself he does it every day with numerous other senators of every party. We understand that Senator Renzi needs visibility to cover the difficulties of IV, but it is not by lying shamelessly that he will recover the consensus that he has lost over the years and which he continues to lose even now.”