Opposition to Vittorio Sgarbi’s attack in the Chamber after his criticism of Dem deputy Ilaria Manzi who – in recent days – illustrated the motion of no confidence against the undersecretary. “It must be revoked”, say the Pd, M5s, Avs and Azione. The art critic responds by sending the center-left’s accusations of vulgarity and sexism back to the sender and announcing complaints: “it is miserable that it is called chauvinism – he says – to ask a deputy as well as a member of parliament to account for his activities, as I did Ghost deputies of whom there is no trace of ideas and initiatives, except those of the party.” However, this is probably just the appetizer of the clash that will take place in Montecitorio next Tuesday when the motion will be put to the vote. It all starts from the undersecretary’s intervention in the ‘Giornale’ in which Manzi was defined as a “song writer” whose words “will die forgotten like her”.
The minorities raise the case in Montecitorio and return to ask Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to intervene.
“Undersecretary Sgarbi is no stranger to insults and vulgarity – says Dem group leader Chiara Braga – together with the other oppositions we ask with a motion that will finally be put to the vote next week that Minister Sangiuliano removes his undersecretary from office”. “The Prime Minister should remove him”, Avs also says with Francesco Mari. “Sgarbi resigns”, asks M5s with Anna Laura Orrico. “The limit is full”, comments Fabrizio Benzoni from Azione.
Meanwhile Sgarbi, in a post on Facebook, also takes issue with Elisabetta Piccolotti of Avs, another signatory of the motion: “Elected – is the title – she from Camerino, in Lecce.
Thanks to Fratoianni, her husband. Family business! “. Words that draw the blame from the center-left. “The fact that Sgarbi thinks he can intimidate me with these arguments – replies Piccolotti – says a lot about his balance and her rationality”.
The opposition also asks the President of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana, to protect the deputies from sexist attacks. Already in recent months the opposition had attacked the art critic for his words during an event at Maxxi from which Minister Sangiuliano himself had distanced himself. While the House Authorizations Committee last March examined the case of the undersecretary’s insults (among other ‘goats’) in the last legislature against Mara Carfagna, vice president of Montecitorio at the time.
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