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.
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