I would be happy to meet ANM chief to clarify - Crosetto

(See related stories) (ANSA) - ROME, NOV 27 - Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Monday he would be "very happy" to meet the president of the Italian magistrates' union ANM Giuseppe Santalucia to clarify his position after saying in an interview on Sunday that judicial opposition represented the only major threat facing the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni.
    "If interested, I would be very happy to meet the president of the Magistrates' Association Santalucia and his executive board to clarify my words and motivations," Crosetto said on X, formerly Twitter.
    "That way they will understand that at the base there is only an enormous respect for the institutions. All of them. The judiciary first and foremost," he added.
    On Monday opposition MPs called for Crosetto to report to the Lower House as soon as possible on his remarks.
    Roberto Giachetti of the centrist party Italia Viva said "perhaps he should also come accompanied by the Justice Minister" Carlo Nordio. (ANSA).