The former minister Teresa BellanovaExponent of Italy Viva and Deputy Minister of Infrastructure in Mario Draghi’s government, dates back to Conte’s times and pins Giuseppe Conte on the “mission” of Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Italy at the time of the first wave of the pandemic.
The topic raises numerous questions also due to the meetings at that time. there Russia, after invading Ukraine, reacting to Italy’s position on the war unleashed by Putin, accurately recalled the “aid” that the “Tsar” would have guaranteed to Italy at the same time as the first lockdown. The Russian Federation has also sent doctors, material and medical staff to the beautiful country.
And Bellanova remembered what had happened and explained to IlFoglio how theformer Giallorossi Premier decided to act autonomously in these circumstances: “We were not involved in the control room or even in the Council of Ministers: no confrontation. In other cases, we were expected to receive help from abroad, perhaps informally. Happened for Russia. And I can’t say if Putin’s move was smart.” +
So the Chefgrillino would have avoided involving the Council of Ministers. And that would have been a novelty compared to what in practice Giuseppe Conte would have organized similar initiatives. The suspicion is always the same, namely that Vladimir Putin was trying to “get more out of it” with this mission, as the former minister always assumes. Even Bergamo Mayor Giorgio Gori, who is a member of the Democratic Party, raised the possibility that the Russians were actually pursuing a different goal with this aid.
The exponent of the party conducted Matteo Renzi He urges: “Perhaps, and I’m saying it rhetorically, there are facts that should be explained by the former prime minister, given what is happening.” The consideration is political, but Conte chose to fly over and not respond, at least for now. However, the outlines of this story seem to pose a mystery that not even Bellanova can solve, if: “In those hours everything was complicated and dramatic, it must be said he added to the source just quoted only afterwards did we learn that it there was a phone call between Conte and Putin. Stop. I can’t say if there were other agreements.”
Between “secret meetings” and unanswered questions, Giuseppe Conte risks ending up in a new cauldron.