“I resign with immediate effect as undersecretary of the government and I will communicate it to Meloni in the next few hours”: he said it Vittorio Sgarbi on the sidelines of an event in Milan, La Ripartenza, organized by the journalist Nicola Porro. “Now I’m just SgarbiI am no longer undersecretary” added the art critic and television personality, specifying that he resigned “for you”, referring to journalists.
“The Antitrust sent a very complex and confusing letter, saying that it had accepted two anonymous letters, which the Minister of Culture sent to the Antitrust, in which it was written that I cannot give a conference at Porro,” he said. added the now former undersecretary. Then, later: “I will appeal to the TAR” on the Antitrust resolution “that reached me” on the question of incompatibility on extra-government activities.
“I resigned to be Sgarbi. If they tell me that I cannot give conferences, or present exhibitions or books since I am an undersecretary, I resign. The rule applied by the Antitrust does not distinguish between paid or free services. I was called for my expertise, but if I can’t do Sgarbi I’ll resign,” she explains.
Furthermore, Sgarbi specifies that “I don’t have to apologize to anyoneI expressed my imprecations like anyone does”, regarding the insults in reaction to the investigations by the journalists of Report and Il Fatto Quotidiano.
Finally he returns to his comments regarding the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano: “I said that those who send anonymous letters are without dignity, I’m not talking about him. He took the anonymous letters and sent them to the Antitrust. He acted as the messenger of the anonymous”.