Premier Paolo Gentiloni's
centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement (M5S) clashed on Tuesday over a TV report into
troubled daily newspaper L'Unità.
State broadcaster RAI's investigative-journalism show
'Report' ran an item on the company that is majority stakeholder
in the daily, which used to be the newspaper of the Italian
Communist Party and later of the PD, and its government
contracts.
PD Treasurer Francesco Bonifazi said via Twitter on Wednesday
that the party would sue Report for damages.
The M5S, meanwhile, said it will present a petition to
prosecutors to investigate the case.
Senior M5S lawmaker Luigi Di Maio, the Deputy Speaker of the
Lower House, said the petition would ask investigators to look
into possible felonies of "influence peddling, bid rigging and
induction to corruption".
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