Increasingly furious clash between Lega and Cinque Stelle after yesterday's explosion of two new cases of alleged corruption and bad governance. The Northern League Undersecretary for Infrastructure, Armando Siri – the ideologue of the flat tax - is being investigated for corruption because he would have pocketed 30 euros from an entrepreneur from the South close to the boss Matteo Messina Denaro to include an amendment on renewable energies in the budget, which in reality was never approved.
Minister Danilo Toninelli immediately removed his powers as undersecretary but the Five Stars demand much more and that is the resignation, which even Prime Minister Conte seems to overshadow. But the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, does not even want to hear about it and joins forces with Siri. The grill leader Luigi Di Maio, however, does not give up: "There is a moral issue: the facts are linked to the mafia". Salvini's reply: "We do not accept two weights and two measures".
But the Siri case is not the only one to haunt an increasingly divided government. Yesterday the weekly L'Espresso has released a recording that troubles the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi. In the recording, the mayor can be heard very well ordering the former president of the Ama (the municipal waste company), Lorenzo Bagnacani, to adjust the budget to make it appear in the red. Raggi responded to the manager's refusal by dismissing him from office. Open up heaven. Here, too, it immediately clicked the request for the union's resignation, naturally with reversed parties: the Five Stars defend – albeit timidly – the Rays, while Salvini's League, which has launched the campaign to conquer the Capitol, wants the mayor's resignation and new administrative elections in the capital. But the battle isn't over.
