Embarrassment at having ended up at the center of a political storm together with the president of Leonardo, former Finmeccanica, Stefano Pontecorvowithout even realizing it. This is what emerges from the entourage of the director of the National Cybersecurity Agency Bruno Frattasi. No official comment, at least for now, on what happened in Pescara during the Fratelli d’Italia convention at the end of which the two state managers were photographed on stage, together with the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto and other participants, showing the t-shirt with the slogan of the electoral campaign for the European elections of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s party, “Italy changes Europe”. It had been delivered to everyone shortly before by the event hostesses.
What triggered the opposition’s reaction was the fact that Frattasi and Pontecorvo – the former former prefect of Rome and before that head of the fire department, an expert in combating organized crime, and the latter ambassador with a past of important roles in London, Moscow, Brussels and Africa, NATO coordinator of the evacuation of Westerners from Kabul in 2021 — agreed to be photographed wearing the demonstration t-shirt, while in a similar subsequent panel, on that same stage in front of photographers, the CEO of Eni Claudio Descalzi kindly refused, as did the former Interior Minister and member of the Democratic Party Marco Minniti. They just held them in their hands, without showing them. Even Enel CEO Flavio Cattaneo preferred not to be filmed wearing the shirt. In the “indicted” photo with the blue t-shirt in the foreground, together with Frattasi and Pontecorvo appear the minister Crosetto, the undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Isabella Rauti and the president of the Foreign Affairs commission of the Chamber Giulio Tremonti. At the announcement of questions to the Senate by the leader of Italia viva Enrico Borghiwho denounced the loss of “institutional grammar”, and directly to the prime minister by the deputy of the Green and Left Alliance Angelo BonelliM. was added yesterdayPellegrini archgroup leader of the Five Star Movement in the Defense Committee of the Chamber and member of Copasir: «We will ask Parliament for explanations on this shameful episode», he underlined.
