Meloni: “I'm waiting to see Sgarbi to accept his resignation”
Giorgia Meloni finds the decision to resign as undersecretary announced by Vittorio Sgarbi “correct, after the Antitrust ruling” and, in a press point during his visit to Japan, the Prime Minister confirmed that “I am waiting to see Sgarbi to accept his resignation”.
In the resolution published in the weekly bulletin, in fact, Antitrust had established that the “Undersecretary of State for Culture, Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi he has carried out professional activities as an art critic, in matters related to his government position, as specified in the justification, in favor of public and private entities, in violation of article 2, paragraph 1, letter d) of law 20 July 2004, n. 215 or the Frattini law on conflict of interest”. The Authority also established “with regard to the activities of offering editorial products to the public carried out through the website www.vittoriosgarbi.it, the closure of the preliminary investigation procedure for the subsequent termination of the situation Of incompatibility hypothesized in the act of objective extension”.
Meloni: “No decisions about others without objective elements”
For the Sgarbi case “I waited to have objective elements so I hope that Sgarbi, who was able to count on a government that was waiting for objective elements, today does not expect that same government to decide for others with elements that are not objective” . Thus the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a press point at the end of the bilateral summit with the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in Tokyo.
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Sgarbi, letter to Meloni: “Check other incompatibilities in the government”
“I feel the need to thank you for your behavior towards me, always respectful, linear and never yielding towards the many fierce opponents who have launched a real journalistic and television persecution (with state TV) hoping, with me, to intimidate you and the government you preside over. However, if the government, at the hands of one of its ministers (I repeat: of one of its ministers), promoted a investigation into conflict of interest within government (also based on an anonymous letter from a multiple convicted felon), it is right that I ask the Antitrust to extend the investigation to all institutions, with the same criteria. Not out of retaliation, but out of respect for the institutions whose decisions I deferred to. And that you guarantee the integrity of the government regarding possible incompatibilities, if I am not allowed to speak and promote art and my ideas in any way”. This is what Vittorio Sgarbi asks in a letter to Giorgia Meloni published from the 'Corriere della Sera'. “Article 21 of the Constitution repudiates Antitrust”, claims the undersecretary for Culture who announced his resignation.
Sgarbi, letter to Meloni: “I will appeal to the TAR”
“Dear President, I do not agree with the resolution of the Agcm, I will appeal to the TAR. But the resolution is clear: I cannot live the life I have led for fifty years, I cannot be myself and be an undersecretary – Sgarbi points out in the letter -. The Antitrust did not say 'This or that activity in Sgarbi's life is not good, but his 'entire activity as a writer, narrator, curator and art historian' (and with this also promoting and selling his own books, as you also did): that is, it is my life. It is, as one immediately understands by reading the forced motivation, one decision that is both politically correct and legally incorrect”. “In fact, no true jurist understands why holding a conference on Caravaggio, participating in or chairing a round table on Tintoretto, presenting a book on Michelangelo, could constitute a violation of the limits of the law, generating an incompatibility with the ministerial function, to the point of distort its meaning – he states – And this is also because, according to the regulations in force, the activity connected to the ministerial one must be carried out in a professional way, and it makes one smile that one can, by profession, autograph and present books or inaugurate exhibitions, and that this could distort the public service.”
Sgarbi then indicated the stages that will lead to the formalization of his resignation from the government position: “All very simple. The resolution of the Agcm is not definitive, and admits: An appeal may be lodged against this provision to the TAR of Lazio, pursuant to article 135, paragraph 1, letter b) of the Administrative Process Code (Legislative Decree 2 July 2010, n. 104), within the period of sixty days from the date of notification of the provision itself, or an extraordinary appeal can be lodged with the President of the Republic, pursuant to article 8 of the Decree of the President of the Republic of 24 November 1971, n. 1199, within the period of one hundred and twenty days from the date of notification of the provision itself”. By virtue of this guaranteed appeal – clarifies Sgarbi – I confirm my resignation, which will be effective at the end of the administrative process which provides for the ruling of the TAR after my appeal. I will leave even in the event of a favorable ruling. In the meantime I'm self-suspending. But I do not want, with my immediate resignation, to hinder the proceedings of the TAR which provides for the 'suspension' of the antitrust resolution. The prime minister – concludes the Undersecretary – must have a clear picture of my incompatibilities envisaged by the antitrust in terms arbitrary and contradictory, without a comparative evaluation of other obvious incompatibilities of members of the executive”.
Salvini: “But did Sgarbi resign? I didn't read the letter”
“Rude? I didn't read the letter. Did he resign?” This is the reply of the Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini to the request for a comment on the resignation of the undersecretary for culture and art critic Vittorio Sgarbi.
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