Not asking to impede probes says Renzi

(ANSA) - Rome, April 4 - Premier Matteo Renzi told his Democratic Party (PD) executive Monday that unlike former premier Silvio Berlusconi he was not trying to "impede" judicial probes such as one into a southern Italian oil project that has rocked the government. "The profound difference with others is that they spoke of legitimate impediment, I say question me, the others spoke of the statute of limitations where I ask for sentences and I say do the trials, but quickly. We are not the same as others: let that be printed on the heads of anyone who has doubts. We are not those who asked fo legitimate impediments, but we ask for sentences to be issued seriously, quickly". Industry minister Federica Guidi quit last week over a government amendment that benefitted the Tempa Rossa oil project in Basilicata.