The judiciary strikes when the centre-right is strong - Crippa

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 27 - A strong centre-right has always been a target of part of the Italian judiciary, right-wing League Deputy Secretary Andrea Crippa said on Monday.
    "Crosetto is right, the judiciary in Italy - not all of it, but most of it - has always shown that when it is strong, the centre-right has to be hit," said Crippa referring to the assertion by Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in an interview to Corriere della Sera on Sunday that "the only major danger (facing Premier Giorgia Meloni's government, ed. ) is from those who have always felt they are an antagonistic faction and have always undermined centre-right governments - judicial opposition".
    "Salvini is demonstration that part of the judiciary does not investigate on the basis of objective guilt but rather of political affiliation," he continued of the League leader and deputy premier Matteo Salvini, who has been at the centre of numerous probes particularly in relation to his policies aiming to stem irregular migration during his tenure as interior minister between 2018 and 2019.
    "So, if you are on the centre-right you are penalised and, since the centre-right is strong, as Crosetto said, I expect some kind of investigation or rumour, some wire taps to perhaps emerge in a few days' time in the left-wing press, which represents the '80 per cent," concluded Crippa.
    In the interview published by Corriere della Sera on Sunday the defence minister is reported as saying he had "heard about meetings of a faction within the judiciary in which they talk about how to 'stop the anti-democratic drift Meloni is leading us to'".
    "Since we have seen all sorts of things in the past, if I know this country, I expect this season to open soon, before the European elections," he continued. (ANSA).