In 2024, the powerful businessman and far -right parliamentarian Antonio Angelucci was in a singular situation that his criticisms assimilated to a serious conflict of interest. 80 years old, having made a fortune in the field of health, depending on almost all of the public expenditure, as well as in real estate, this weight support of the right and far right government of the chairman of the council, Giorgia Meloni, wanted to afford a press agency for 40 million euros.
However, it belonged to the ENI national energy giant, 32 % owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. A parliamentarian of the majority in the process of acquiring a media belonging to a company with state participation … The superposition of private, public, political, ideological interests, was too clarifying, and the transaction to which the agency employees were opposed was not carried out. However, she drew attention to the ambitions in the media space of a private potentat with clear political affiliations and member of the Parliament since 2008.
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Source: Lemonde