(see related story on Boschi)
Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo
Renzi said Tuesday that the publication of wiretaps of a
conversation with his father amounted to a "media pillory" but
added that they also showed his seriousness regarding the CONSIP
case.
The ex-premier's father Tiziano is under investigation in a
probe into alleged corruption at civil-service procurement
agency CONSIP.
"This morning Il Fatto (Quotidiano) published wiretaps
between me and my father with great emphasis," Renzi said on
Facebook.
"They reiterate my seriousness as, when the CONSIP scandal
broke, I called my father to say 'Dad, this is not a game, you
have to say the truth, only the truth'.
"The wiretaps are a gift to me in political terms. Their
publication, as always, is illegitimate.
"But I cannot complain: I am not the first to go through this
media pillory. On the contrary, it was much worse for some
others. Some took their own lives, some lost their jobs".
Rome prosecutors have opened a probe into the leak, sources
said.
Investigators are looking into alleged breach of
investigation confidentiality and arbitrary publication of
criminal-procedure documents.
Roberto Fico and Carlo Martelli, the parliamentary whips of
the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), said there were
"too many opaque aspects" to the case in a statement Tuesday.
Deputy Lower House Speaker Luigi Di Maio, another senior M5S
member, said that "Matteo Renzi and Maria Elena Boschi are two
liars".
On Facebook, he added: "they are the two faces of the same
lying government that lied to the Italian people to protect
family business. They have infected the institutions with a lie.
We must do everything to liberate the institutions of the
sickness of 'Renzi-ism'. Let's organize and kick them out".
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