“According to Lollo, I would throw myself into the Tiber, as they say in Rome.” But love “is another thing.” Arianna Meloni chooses the Foglio and a long interview to make public what had been whispered in political circles for some time: she and Francesco Lollobrigida, minister and head of delegation of Fdi in the government led by her sister, are no longer together.
ANSA Agency Meloni off the radar. Staff clarifies: she is in Italy A last weekend of relaxation, away from the spotlight“For a while now.” An announcement that comes at the end of a week in which Arianna has been at the center of the news (political, not gossip) following speculation about potential investigations against her for her alleged involvement in important appointments. Not just those of Rai.
“For two years, I have been portrayed as dealing with appointments and power plots, it’s disheartening,” the sister of the Prime Minister laments: of course, nothing compared to “Silvio Berlusconi. No one compares to a statesman like him,” but “the thing that Sallusti wrote was based on the book and declarations of Luca Palamara, a former member of the Csm, about a method that evidently existed, and I don’t know if it still exists.” But “far from me to attack the judiciary,” the Fdi leader reiterates once again.
After a family vacation in Puglia, she spent a few days with her daughters in Sardinia while her now-ex partner took on institutional roles and attended the Cl Meeting. The Prime Minister, meanwhile, remains off the radar, possibly still in Puglia; some speculate that she is with her friend Marcello Gemmato, who was already with the Meloni sisters at the farmhouse, but there are no confirmations. The day after the Agriculture Minister’s intervention in Rimini, the revelation comes. It clarifies their private matters (“they are our business, and there are many people we love involved; I would end it here with the morbid curiosity,” she says) and distinguishes them from public matters. Which, according to the words of the head of the Fratelli d’Italia secretariat, remain unchanged. “The relationship is solid,” assures Arianna, “our political project goes on.” From the minister, no longer even a brother-in-law, there is no comment. Arianna has only words of praise for him: “We care for each other, I know his worth, I know what kind of political stuff he is made of: someone capable of working 500 hours a day. He is a solid, honest person with great preparation.”
While “Lollo,” as she calls him, is “subject to incredible violence,” like her sister the Prime Minister, when they are doing “incredible work.” She now wants to focus on her work in the party rather than “be seen as a schemer and a mythomaniac.” A step up for the political training school is already in the works, a sort of “right-wing Frattocchie,” as the Foglio defines it, which will be led by training head Fabio Rampelli.
The Vice President of the Chamber assures that it will start in the fall, with “remote and in-person” lessons open to “administrators, executives,” but also to “militants and the youth movement.” Because “unlike other political formations,” Arianna explains, “we don’t want to leave the party understaffed and close ourselves off in the palace.”