Overview
- Fratelli d’Italia group leader Galeazzo Bignami asked the Presidency of the Republic to deny a La Verità story about a supposed plan from the Quirinale to hinder Giorgia Meloni.
- In an official note, the Quirinale expressed astonishment and said Bignami seemed to credit yet another attack on the presidency that strays into the ridiculous.
- La Verità’s article, signed by director Maurizio Belpietro, names Francesco Saverio Garofani and reports alleged conversations about forming an alternative civic list to stop the centre-right.
- The piece also attributes to the adviser a reference to a “providential jolt” that would prevent a government victory by Meloni’s coalition.
- Belpietro publicly stood by the report “word for word,” while no independent corroboration of the alleged talks has been presented.