Carlo Calenda and Corrado Formigli, New Year’s Eve clash with back and forth between the Action senator and the host of Piazza Pulita. And with an epilogue, apparently, in court.
The words of an interview conducted for Ivan Grieco’s podcast sparked the discussion. The senator told of a phone call he received from the authors of the La7 broadcast in which he asked his staff: “But can you guarantee that you will attack Meloni on the budget law?”. Calenda rejected the request and in the program in question he was the protagonist of a face-to-face meeting with the economist Jeffrey Sachs. The leader of Action, in the debate on the war in Ukraine and on EU-Russia relations, responded peremptorily to Sachs, apparently shocked after being called a “liar”.
Formigli’s reply
Today, Formigli’s reply arrives. “Lying for a politician and former minister is a serious matter, elsewhere one resigns. And with this I believe that everything is about Senator Calenda. Next time, if you agree to waive your immunity, I’ll see you in court“, says the host.
“In a desperate attempt to attract attention, Senator Calenda continues to bring me up. I have decided not to give him any credit so as not to fuel his games. However, when faced with a sesquipedal falsehood, a one-off intervention is necessarily necessary“.
The clarifications follow: “The senator claims that ‘my authors’ told him before an episode ‘he must assure us that he will attack Meloni’ and that participation in the part of the episode on the Economic Maneuver was skipped because he would not have been willing to attack the Prime Minister. This statement – says Formigli – is false and defamatory. The authors of a programme, when they hear a guest before the episode, ask him or, as in the case of Calenda, his spokesperson, what position he has on the issues to be debated in order to compose a balanced and dialectical parterre. In the present case – explains Formigli – since Italo Bocchino, a supporter of the Maneuver, was invited, the authors ascertained what Calenda’s opinion was on the matter in order to avoid too overlapping positions”.
“This is the normal work of any television author – points out the host of ‘Piazza Pulita’ – a profession whose rules Calenda evidently ignores or pretends to ignore. However, the senator is not allowed to lie shamelessly to gain publicity: his presence at the talk on the Maneuver, after various exchanges of messages between my authors and his spokesperson, was confirmed at 10.33 on Thursday morning. However, an unexpected event subsequently occurred: Monica Maggioni, invited for a confrontation with Professor Jeffrey Sachs, she was forced to cancel her presence for strictly personal reasons. At that point, since Sachs was left without an interlocutor, we asked if he was available to move from the block on the Budget to the one with Sachs to discuss Ukraine and the international situation with him. The senator willingly accepted, despite subsequently shouting urbi et orbi that inviting Sachs on TV was unworthy. Not enough, apparently, to refuse to confront him. Last note: Senator Calenda knows very well that he has been moved to Sachs due to Maggioni’s forfeit, yet he publicly claims that the reason is his not sufficiently anti-Melonian positions on the Maneuver”.
Calenda: “I confirm everything, see you in court”
“In a desperate attempt to throw the ball into a corner, Corrado talks about something else. I confirm word for word what I said. I willingly renounce parliamentary immunity and I’ll see you in Court”, Calenda’s new intervention. “This way of making a show in which politicians are invited on condition that they play a part is an unbearable vice of Italian information, like that of inviting Putin’s propagandists while also demanding that they be left to lie undisturbed. See the Sachs case. I’m sorry but it’s a mixture of bias and bad information that is bad for Italian democracy”, the senator’s post.
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