ROME (ITALPRESS) – Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has sent Premier Giorgia Meloni a letter in which he informs the prime minister of his “irrevocable resignation.” Alessandro Giuli has been appointed minister of culture.
“After having long meditated, in painful days filled with hatred towards me by a certain political media system,” Sangiuliano writes, “I have decided to resign in irrevocable terms as Minister of Culture.
I thank you for having resolutely defended me, for having already rejected an initial request for my resignation, and for the affection you have once again shown me. But I consider it necessary for the institutions and for myself to resign. As you mentioned recently, we are doing great things, and I say this as a political and human community to which I feel I belong. My honorability is at stake here, and I consider it important to be able to act to demonstrate my absolute transparency and fairness, without involving the government. Never a euro from the Ministry has been spent on improper activities. I have said it and I will prove it in every forum. Not only that. I will go all the way to verify whether different interests have been involved in the affair and I will act against those who have published fake news in recent days.”
“This work,” he continued, “cannot be tainted and especially stopped by matters of gossip. Institutions are too high a value and must not submit to the motives of individuals. I need personal tranquility, to be next to my wife whom I love, but above all to have my hands free to act in all legal venues against those who have caused me this damage, starting with an imminent complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which I intend to file.”
“I sincerely thank Gennaro Sangiuliano,” Meloni writes, “a capable person and an honest man, for the extraordinary work he has done so far, which has allowed the Italian government to achieve important results in the revitalization and enhancement of Italy’s great cultural heritage, even outside national borders. I have taken note of Sangiuliano’s irrevocable resignation and have proposed to the President of the Republic to appoint Alessandro Giuli, currently President of the MAXXI Foundation, as the new Minister of Culture. He will continue the action of relaunching national culture, consolidating that discontinuity with the past that the Italians have asked of us and that we have initiated from our inauguration until today.”
(ITALPRESS).
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Sangiuliano submits irrevocable resignation, Meloni “Capable and honest person”
