Former Italian president Giorgio
Napolitano on Thursday slammed democratic Party (PD) chairman
Matteo Orfini for "an insinuation" regarding the Unipol affair
12 years ago. Napolitano said he had sent Orfini "documentation"
on his stance over a damaging 2005 wiretap in the near-purchase
of the BNL bank. Orfini on Wednesday criticised Napolitano for
alleged inconsistency in calling critics of illegal wiretap
publications "hypocrites" because they had done nothing to stop
the longstanding practice. Orfini had described the publication
of an illegally obtained wiretap in which PD leader and
ex-pre,ier Matteo Renzi tells his father to tell the truth in
the CONSIP civil-service procurement agency graft probe as "an
attack on democracy" and said "they are just trying to hit
Italy's top party".
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