The president of the Senate Foreign Affairs Commission, Vito Petrocelli, grillino and already announced very absent in the Montecitorio hall on the day in which the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who remotely connected with Parliament this morning, ends up in the eye of the storm Italian. The reason for the controversy is Petrocelli’s tweet that challenges the Executive of which he himself belongs. “Outside this interventionist government, which wants to make Italy a co-belligerent country.” Here it is the tweet that has inflamed the political controversy and which now strongly questions its institutional role in addition to its presence in the majority.
Di Maio: His resignation should be requested
One of the harshest reactions is that of Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio who, a few minutes after the tweet and the controversy that inflamed the majority, underlined, again on Twitter, his firm position: “To the President of the Senate Foreign Commission Petrocelli did not ask for clarification for his opposition to aid to Ukraine; he should be asked to resign. He cannot represent Parliament abroad. If M5S and Conte really have a different line, they expel him ».
But from Italia Viva to Forza Italia, the controversy has flared up in an amen. The leaders of IV underlined: “The leaders of the M5S dissociate themselves from the very serious words of Petrocelli regarding the withdrawal of ministers and undersecretaries from a government defined as” interventionist “”. Speaking like this was the vice-president of the senators Laura Garavini, while the spokesperson for Fi, senator Andrea Cangini has a more nuanced position: “Legitimate position, that of Petrocelli – he begins -, but evidently incompatible with the function of president of the Foreign Affairs commission of Palazzo Madama. If he wants to legitimately defend his ideas – warns the Berlusconian exponent – Petrocelli must do only one thing: resign ».
Petrocelli’s response: “I will no longer vote for confidence in the government”
The response to Petrocelli’s controversy was immediate. At the end of the session on the Ukraine question, tranchant commented: “I do not intend to leave the presidency of the commission”. He adds: “I will no longer vote for confidence in the government on any provision.” And finally: “The government’s attitude to war is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, because by now I consider the Draghi government’s foreign and defense policies to be very far from the program of the 5 Star Movement”.