The Italian television program Le
Iene announced on its website Monday that it had proof Prime
Minister Giuseppe Conte had not told the truth about his
relationship with law professor Guido Alpa.
The program on the Italia 1 channel said it had "several
previously unseen and sensational documents that show that
Giuseppe Conte, as concerns a university competition and his
relations with professor and mentor Guido Alpa, did not tell the
whole truth".
It said this would be the focus of its Tuesday show.
The show will "disprove all the versions given thus far by
the prime minster on this issue".
In late 2018, the centre-left opposition Democratic Party
(PD) had filed an urgent question in the Senate saying the
competition in which Premier Giuseppe Conte became a university
lecturer in 2002 "could be tainted by grave incompatibility".
The PD Senate caucus said Alpa was in the commission that
judged Conte even though "Alpa was described as a partner in the
CV Conte sent to parliament."
Conte later claimed in a letter to a national newspaper that
"Professor Alpa is not, properly speaking, my 'mentor' and
contrary to what has been reported I and Professor Alpa have
never had an associated professional studio, nor have we ever
constituted an association between professionals".
Conte said he and Alpa used a secretary's office also serving
other professional studios, "as often happens in the
professional world".
Conte responded at the launch of ANSA's photobook Monday
evening by saying "there was no conflict of interest, this is an
old story".
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