Overview

• De Luca says she faced ‘mobbing’ by Cgil delegates through persistent obstructionism and false accounts after she expressed support for Valditara’s reforms.
• The dispute began last autumn when several teachers at her Liceo Montessori in Rome backed Professor Christian Raimo, who was sanctioned by the regional school office.
• Lega’s Rossano Sasso decried the union’s conduct as an unacceptable assault on free expression and said he will table a parliamentary interrogation.
• Gimmi Cangiano of Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia’s Rita Dalla Chiesa pledged their backing for De Luca and confirmed plans to question union representatives in parliament.
• The case underscores broader tensions over political alignment in schools and the limits of union influence on educators.