The Senate confirmed the vote of the electoral council and parliamentary immunities at the request of the court of ministers, responding negatively to the request for acquire chats between the former minister Gennaro Sangiuliano and the businessman Maria Rosaria Boccia. A shield by the former Minister of Culture, in the FdI quota, which sees the majority forces compact in the Chamber in favor of stopping the college’s request for ministerial crimes in the court of Rome, 95 votes were recorded, against 58, none were abstained. .
“Total availability to collaborate with the court of ministers and provide any documentary evidence that demonstrates the absolute justice of Dr. Sangiuliano”, declare the lawyers Silvério Sica AND Giuseppe Pepêlawyers of the former Minister of Culture who make it known that in recent days they have already forwarded, in recent days, to the court of ministers, “a note expressing their total availability to provide, for example, the credit card statements of Sangiuliano do which shows that all expenses were incurred personally and that no reimbursement was requested for them.”
In the early afternoon the council, chaired by the dem Dario Franceschinivoted in favor of the report Words (FI), which presented the need to respond negatively to the investigators’ request, recognizing that there were second-level persecutions against Sangiuliano. In the council, the compact majority was in favor of the report, while the opposition was opposed: Pd, M5S, Avs, Italia viva. On the merits, the court’s request refers to the acquisition of the chat, also to be able to assess whether the hypothesis of crime present in the green light complaint can be recognized in them. Angelo Bonellior the revelation of official secrets. It is not, therefore, a request, as is often the case with parliamentarians and ministers, seeking authorization for legal proceedings.
But as rapporteur Paroli explains, “in the present case the evidentiary purpose of the seizure is not expressed with regard to the concrete configuration of the crimes prosecuted”, therefore “the indiscriminate acquisition of an indefinite series of data, in addition to harming the confidentiality of the suspect, does not appear finalized and functionally correlated with the demonstration of the crime hypotheses in relation to which proceedings are underway, also demonstrating in this case the disproportionate nature of the provision that gives rise to the plausible suspicion of the existence of second-degree fumus persecis”.
A position shared by the FdI and the Lega, while the opposition, unitedly, expressed the need for the court’s green light. Correspondence “is necessary and indispensable proof”, said the senator Anna Rossomando of the Democratic Party, speaking in the Chamber.
