Boccia says she will 'prove truth out of love for democracy'

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 10 - Fashion entrepreneur and influencer Maria Rosaria Boccia, who is at the centre of a scandal that led to the resignation of culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano last week, said on Tuesday that she is "determined to prove the truth of my virtue, especially out of love for the Italian republic and democracy".
    In a post on Instagram, the would-be advisor to Sangiuliano who claims to have had access to confidential email exchanges regarding the upcoming G7 Culture meeting and that public money was spent on her involvement in official engagements and trips wrote that, "if a whim is in charge of government action, then we are already at a passage towards a new form of government: dictatorship.
    "The principle of preservation of dictatorship lies precisely on a dictator's whim", said the entrepreneur, whose version of events has been disputed by Sangiuliano.
    Boccia, who is set to appear on the Carta Bianca program of Mediaset's Retequattro on Tuesday night, said she is defending her "dignity and honour as a woman and citizen", adding that they have been "blemished by the culture minister's insults" and that she has "never received official apologies" and has "often been threatened with lawsuits". (ANSA).