Finivest and Mondadori President
Marina Berlusconi, the eldest daughter of late premier and media
billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, denied her family felt
"disregard" towards Premier Giorgia Meloni or was "dissatisfied"
with Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, leader
of the Forza Italia (FI) party founded by her father, stating
that "the exact contrary is true in both cases" in a letter to
Rome daily La Repubblica published on Wednesday.
"I know that stemming the tide of allegations and leaks is a
very difficult practice, if not an impossible one, but I cannot
continue to tolerate the alleged reports that have no contact
whatsoever with reality", Berlusconi wrote in the letter.
In the letter to the daily newspaper's editor-in-chief Maurizio
Molinari, Berlusconi responded to a report published by
Repubblica on Wednesday alleging Silvio Berlusconi's eldest
children Marina and Piersilvio had a "difficult relationship"
with Meloni and that their father's longtime aide Gianni Letta
was helping Marina Berlusconi take steps to give Forza Italia a
more relevant role in relation to Meloni's Brothers of Italy
(FdI) party.
The article also mentioned a meeting between Berlusconi, Letta
and former Italian premier and European central banker Mario
Draghi last week.
Berlusconi said Repubblica "goes as far as describing thoughts
and projects I don't have and never had" in the article
published Wednesday.
It "deformed the object of meetings that are part my role and of
work, turning them into absurd secret talks hiding sci-fi-style
political plots", also wrote Berlusconi, .
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