Dear Director Feltri, I find despicable the widespread practice on the left of attacking the relatives of political adversaries in an attempt to wear down their enemies. I don’t know if Arianna Meloni is about to receive a notice of investigation for influence peddling, as this newspaper hypothesizes, but the prime minister’s sister has certainly been targeted for several months, just as Meloni’s ex-partner, Andrea Giambruno, has ended up in the crosshairs of the media, the victim of a campaign that massacred him as a man and as a journalist. Have we perhaps forgotten? It’s a film already seen and re-seen. What do you think of this matter?
Vito Lombardi.
Dear Vito, following the insistent and defamatory articles in some newspapers that have reported the alleged direction of the prime minister’s sister at the meetings to decide on the top positions at Rai and Trenitalia and the vexatious questions from some opposition figures, who out of political opportunism have given credence to such insinuations, or have taken for granted the alleged pressure exerted by Arianna Meloni in relation to the appointments of public companies, it is plausible to imagine that all these operations are a prelude to a notice of investigation, however such a notice has not yet arrived and it is not a given that it will arrive. And this must be clarified, to avoid any misunderstanding. Arianna Meloni, who has also received messages and declarations of solidarity from the right that were perhaps a little out of place and hasty, is not under investigation and it is not certain that she will be. As you point out, there is only one certain element: the consolidated habit on the left of throwing stones at the relatives of some prominent political figures with the aim of shaking the latter, of smearing them, of discrediting them in the eyes of the voters. A strategy that does not work, which weakens and undermines the credibility of those who use it in an unscrupulous manner, fueling theorems and imaginative reconstructions that have no basis in reality. It strikes me that even someone like Matteo Renzi, a guarantor, who ended up together with his close relatives in the media and judicial meat grinder, fell into the error of seizing the opportunity and making Meloni the victim of what he himself suffered, namely the massacre of a family member for political purposes. Yet it was Italia Viva itself that insisted on the alleged intervention of Arianna, who, in essence, according to what the progressives say, would have a decisive role in certain decision-making areas.
Hard to believe. Arianna Meloni has never even had any institutional role and not because she is not capable, but only because of the extreme seriousness of the Meloni sisters, in particular Giorgia, who has invested her entire existence in politics and has a deep respect for public property that the left and not the right has made a mess of in the years in which it has been in power, dividing it up as if it were a private matter, a cake.
I am firmly convinced of the correctness of these women, who have my respect. And this is the reason why I believe that perhaps a useless fuss has been raised.
I do not rule out that the investigation has been opened, but, even if it were, it would be yet another file opened and then archived in a short space of time. Those who act clearly have nothing to fear. They must smile, pity their enemies for their disloyalty and let them do their thing.