2023-05-26 17:47:56
Time.news – Ricardo Franco Levi, government commissioner for the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair, where Italy is the guest of honour, has sent a letter of resignation to the culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano. Franco Levi, already in recent weeks at the center of a controversy over the withdrawal of the invitation to the physicist Carlo Rovelli for his words against the minister Guido Crosetto, followed by an apology and a new invitation, is the protagonist of another case opened by an article di Libero in which it is claimed that he would have assigned the communication for Italy to Buchmesse to a Belgian company, Ifc Next, in which his son works.
Withdrawal and rethinking
Just 24 hours after the letter in which he communicated to Carlo Rovelli the cancellation of his speech at the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Ricardo Franco Levi had retraced his steps by renewing the invitation to the scientist to participate in the inaugural event. In a note, the extraordinary government commissioner first of all explained that he had written that letter “without having received any pressure or solicitation” and that he had done so “in order to rigorously fulfill the institutional responsibility conferred on me with a decree from the President of the Republic “.
It was the professor himself who explained the reasons for the initial cancellation. “Italy asked me to represent it at the opening ceremony but since I dared to criticize the defense minister (last May 1, from the stage of the Concertone in Rome, ed) my speech was cancelled”
Sangiuliano’s answer
Technically he cannot accept the resignation, but he deems a discontinuity necessary. The Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, in a note confirms that he has received a letter from Ricardo Franco Levi “in which he says he is ready to make available the position of Extraordinary Commissioner of the government for Italy, guest of honor at the Fair of the Frankfurt Book 2024”.
“I specify that I am not the person institutionally authorized to accept such resignations, although I share the need to give discontinuity to this office after the recent controversies – he adds – I will inform the government to possibly agree on the appointment of a new commissioner. I thank Levi for the sensitivity shown and the work done so far”.
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