The secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, replied that “this is nonsense” and that “it is the well-known, imaginary scenario, with Putin, fascism, racism and nationalism as the main elements”.
Direct Russian intervention in the Italian political scene, which seems to have cost the fall in the Draghi government, the Italian newspaper La Stampa reveals on Thursday.
According to today’s report in the Italian newspaper, the League party had contacts in the past with high-ranking diplomats of the Russian embassy in Rome.
The newspaper of Turin writes that at the end of May the Antonio Capuano, adviser on international relations to the secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, met with the diplomat of the Russian embassy in Italy, Oleg Kostiukov. La Stampa refers to information and documents that it says come from the Italian secret services and adds that Kostiukov, according to this information, “asked Capuano if the League meant to withdraw its ministers from the government of Mario Draghi ».
The head of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, immediately demanded all the necessary explanations “to ascertain whether Russia brought down the Draghi government”.
Salvini: “Nonsense”
The secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, for his part, replied that “this is nonsense” and that “it is the well-known, imaginary scenario, with Putin, fascism, racism and nationalism as the main elements”.
Franco Gabrieli, finally, a deputy minister despite the presidency of the Italian government, on which the country’s intelligence services depend, insisted that “what is mentioned in the La Stampa article, regarding information that may have as a source the intelligence services – as has been clarified in the past – lack any basis”.
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