Italian tradition minister quits after affair scandal embarrasses Meloni authorities

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Italian tradition minister quits after affair scandal embarrasses Meloni authorities

The Italian tradition minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, has stop following backlash over a consultancy position for his former lover that had turn out to be a humiliation for Giorgia Meloni’s authorities.

Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, has confronted a media storm since Maria Rosaria Boccia, a vogue entrepreneur, mentioned final month she had been nominated as an “adviser to the minister for main occasions”.

The tradition ministry initially denied such an appointment, however Sangiuliano later defined he had agreed to take her on as an unpaid advisor earlier than altering his thoughts attributable to battle of curiosity.

In a letter to Meloni, the prime minister, on Friday, Sangiuliano mentioned: “I deem it essential for the establishments and for myself handy in my resignation.” Although he defended his report and denied any breach of ministerial guidelines.

In a tearful prime-time TV interview on Wednesday, Sangiuliano had acknowledged that Boccia had been his lover, apologised to his spouse and Meloni, and mentioned the prime minister had rejected his first supply to resign.

Meloni rapidly picked Alessandro Giuli, head of the MAXXI modern arts museum in Rome, as Sangiuliano’s alternative and he shall be sworn in afterward Friday.

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It was the primary ministerial alternative in Meloni’s right-wing authorities, which has over the previous two years appeared stable, with excessive reputation scores and going through a divided opposition.


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