With 405 votes in favour, 154 yes and 3 abstentions, the Chamber rejected the motion of no confidence presented by the Cinquestelle Movement against the Minister of Justice, Anna Maria Cancellieri, in the storm over the Ligresti case at the Turin prosecutor's office. The position taken by the Democratic Party, collected yesterday by Prime Minister Letta, was decisive. Cancellieri's speech, before the vote: “No favoritism for Ligresti. I didn't lie neither to Parliament nor to magistrates. Everything that has been challenged to me has always been denied by the facts and by the judiciary. I served the state for 50 years."
"I only and exclusively intended to show a person I had known for many years my human closeness in the face of the suffering of a person who had all his family members in prison", the Minister also said in the Chamber. But the M5S returns to attack: "Chancellors not a servant of the state but a servant of the powerful". The minister has now asked for full support from the government: "I'm not staying at any cost".
Meanwhile, other details are emerging on the Ligresti affair. Salvatore Ligresti has in fact repeatedly tried to favor the cause of Giancarlo Giannini, pleading his cause with Silvio Berlusconi. This was reported by Jonella Ligresti, daughter of the Paternò engineer, in an interrogation before the prosecutors in Milan on December 17, 2012. “Certainly my father and Berlusconi talked about the Giannini issue. The two are close friends and did not talk exclusively about this topic. Nor do I believe that this was the only occasion in which my father urged the former prime minister to find a job for Giannini”.
Not only that: Salvatore Ligresti also made sure that Annamaria Cancellieri herself, the current Minister of Justice, remained in Parma, when she was prefect, as she wished. Salvatore himself affirmed it, in an interrogation made before the Milan prosecutors on December 15, 2012.
