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Inquiry on oil, Guidi resigns – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published April 1, 2016 at 06:30.

ROME

“Dear Matthew, I am absolutely certain of my good faith and fair dealing of my work. I believe, however, necessary, as a matter of political expediency, to resign my resignation as Minister of office. Were two years of wonderful work together. He will continue as a citizen and as an entrepreneur to work for the good of our wonderful country. ” When agencies fighting the news of the resignation of the Minister for Economic Development Federica Guidi is 20, and the first reports of interception between Guidi and his partner Gianluca Gemini – owner of two companies operating in the oil sector and investigated by prosecutors in power for complicity in corruption and influence peddling (the magistrate did not accept the request for arrest) – began to circulate in the media in the late morning. In between, hours of silence from the government and the entire Democratic Party, including minority, which presage the outcome. Only Gianni Cuperlo, in the Democratic Party, it launches into a reflection on the case: “After two years of life of this executive maybe it was time to make a cut. I see a little ‘too familism, a concentration of power in a few hands. ” Words that still fall within the boundaries of internal fairness. You Lorenzo Guerini, deputy secretary of the Democratic Party, for warning to the leaders of the minority that the resignations are coming. Hence the silence and soft tones. Silence and subdued tones that naturally remain in the enclosure of the majority, while the opposition is demanding the resignation of trigger means government by Prime Minister Renzi Drive to the Minister for Reforms and Relations with the Parliament Maria Elena Boschi. Only late in the evening comes the reply Matteo Renzi, engaged in traveling to the US. Almost affectionate words, those of the Prime Minister: “Dear Federica, I very much appreciated your work of these years. Serious, determined, competent, Respect your painful personal choice, dictated by reasons of opportunity that I share … I send a big hug. ”

The truth is that Renzi, when they learned the news from the other side of the ocean, is quite upset. And the phone call as it recommends the resignation starts immediately. “It is indefensible,” says the Prime Minister to his collaborators. Although Guidi has not formally investigated, there is a question of ” political opportunity Palazzo Chigi considers it more serious than that which led to the resignation of Maurizio Lupi by Infrastructure. In the interception in question in fact Guidi, just talking with her partner Gemini, she gives him the green light to an amendment to the law of stability that meets its business interests. An interception which also calls into question the center of power of the government Renzi, as Guidi also quotes the Minister Woods: “Even Maria Elena agrees.” “In the Senate we should be able to put in that amendment also that made me go out that night, at four in the morning,” continues Guidi in intercepted phone call. Reconstructing the process of amendment indicted, parliamentarians closer to Renzi notice as the Guidi minister had tried to add already unlocked in-Italy, precisely to unlock the system Red Tempa on which twins had different aims, and without informing any member of the government on the role of his companion was then returned to the office in the law Stability.

“It is very serious that Federica had not told us who he was and what he was doing the boyfriend,” is the reflection of renziani Doc. Hence the second point: the Woods minister, quoted in the interception and already in the sights of the opposition over the affair of Banca Etruria involving the father, is totally foreign to each other because they did not know that the amendment in question, judged by the government valid on the merits, would have favored Gemini. “Anyone who knows the process of law knows that the Minister of Relations with the Parliament in order technical and legal level all the government amendments to the Law of stability”, says among others the head of the Democratic Party Justice Davide Ermini. Of course they not think so the opposition, with the League and the 5 Star Movement calling for the resignation even Renzi and Woods. “The Ride of the Minister’s resignation is an admission of guilt, demonstrate the involvement of the Minister of Forests and the Bomb making the exclusive interest of their relatives, friends, the lobby and never citizens. Should follow the example of the Guidi and resign immediately: enough is enough ‘, thunders Beppe Grillo on his blog. While Silvio Berlusconi is distinguished not asking for anyone’s resignation and raising its old workhorse against eavesdropping, “A weak point of our democracy.”

On the way back from the United States will take Renzi himself the interim for the time necessary to find the successor of Guidi in the delicate ministry. It should be enough a few days. There is talk of Andrea Guerra, actually he returned to the private sector after a year as a consultant of the government, but also to Teresa Bellanova, already “promoted” Deputy Minister for Development with the last reshuffle and much admired by the premier. While the assumption of a promotion of the Secretary to Claudio De Vicenti Presidency is judged ‘unlikely’ in the tight circle.

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