Augias to La7: “Santanchè? Indecent that he remains in his place”. Then he comments on Meloni’s complaint to Canfora and the stamp in memory of Berlusconi

“Someone wonders if the Santanché he should resign or not. The question is improper, because she should resign regardless of her criminal responsibilities and what the judgment will be. A state minister cannot fall into something like this and brazenly resist without reacting. It’s not decent for him to stay there“. Thus the writer and journalist Corrado Augiasguest of On Tuesday (La7), comments on the case of the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè, doubly investigated for fraud against the state on Covid funds and for false accounting.

Augias pronounces on the slew of lawsuits brought by members of the Meloni government and by the Prime Minister herself towards intellectuals and journalists: “It is the sign of an intolerance to criticism. There are some complaints that pain and outrage me, in particular the one against the professor Luciano Canfora, great philologist. The French newspaper covered his story Liberation and the Book Reviews of New York Times. What nobility – he continues – would it have been on the Prime Minister’s part to say: Professor Canfora was wrong, but in the meantime, since he said those words, I have become Prime Minister and I cannot take one of the most illustrious Italian philologists to trial, Why it’s not right. When Canfora said those words, Meloni was only the head of an opposition party. And as Prime Minister he can well afford the luxury of not continuing in court.”
“And instead he also asked for compensation of 20 thousand euros“, comments the host Giovanni Floris.

Finally, the writer expresses himself on the commemorative stamp to Silvio Berlusconias decided by the Meloni government: “Silvio Berlusconi was a brilliant entrepreneur, but a deplorable statesman: he insulted his opponents and the bodies of the State, he mocked the payment of taxes, he called those who voted for the PCI ‘assholes’, and so on. And it was also a prejudiced. Making him a stamp means continuing to set a bad example“.