«I learn that Undersecretary Rossano Sasso has a new collaborator in the Ministry of Education. His name is Pasquale Vespa: he is a professor accused in a criminal case for repeated defamation in the press and serious threats. Pasquale Vespa has spent the last two years of his life publicly insulting me, fomenting verbal assaults and sexual innuendo. Threatening me with death. A cyberbully, to all intents and purposes ». The former Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, writes in a post on Facebook, denouncing: “He tried to hide the contents by removing them from his pages, this did not prevent him from being charged in a trial that will begin shortly.”
“But it’s not a question of legality. Or, at least, not only – he adds – it is a question of opportunity and civilization. This gentleman in the evening vents his sexual instincts on mouths and red lipsticks and threatens to kill a government exponent, the next morning he introduces himself as an ‘educator’ at school, where other values should be taught, first of all respect and tolerance . This gentleman today has responsibility for the government of the Italian school ». «The choice of Undersecretary Sasso does not surprise me, unfortunately. But I wonder – concludes Azzolina – if Minister Bianchi is aware of the fact that Vespa is being hired in his Cabinet. And what do you think about it ». For the Five Stars the appointment of Vespa is “unacceptable”
But the Undersecretary for Education Rossano Sasso, after the accusations, does not back down: “The Honorable Azzolina is not new to attacks against teachers and school principals who have expressed dissent against her policies: just think of the recent case by Alfonso D’Ambrosio, the headmaster of Vo ‘who just in the past few hours saw the disciplinary proceedings that had been brought against him in an absolutely instrumental way closed. Professor Pasquale Vespa, trade unionist and national leader of the movement of precarious teachers, has always represented a thorn in the side for the honorable Azzolina and for hostile policies towards the precarious world ».