Overview

• On June 13 Florence prosecutors requested house arrest for Bugetti over allegations she accepted campaign funds from businessman Riccardo Matteini Bresci in exchange for favourable decisions
• The inquiry by the district anti-mafia office began two years ago and focuses on electoral financing and claims that Freemasonry votes influenced Bugetti’s 2024 victory
• Bugetti has publicly expressed full confidence in the judiciary and confirmed her availability for questioning ahead of the June 19 hearing
• Senior figures in the Partito Democratico, including Governor Eugenio Giani and Deputy Marco Furfaro, have defended Bugetti’s integrity and cooperation with investigators
• Centre-right politicians such as Giorgio Silli and Chiara Colosimo have criticised the PD’s exercise of power and urged deeper scrutiny of Bugetti’s ties to the industrialist