Won't be made look a liar - Di Maio

(ANSA) - Rome, October 19 - Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Friday that he did not want to be made to look a liar as a row rumbled on between his 5-Star Movement (M5S) and its coalition partner, the League, over the government's 'fiscal peace' plan.
    He was speaking after Interior Minister and fellow Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said he did not want to be made to "look a fool" over the case.
    The government has been rocked after Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said the decree containing the fiscal peace had been manipulated without the consent of the M5S to broaden the scope for people to close disputes with the tax authorities.
    Salvini had said "(Premier Giuseppe) Conte was reading and Di Maio was writing" when the relevant part of the decree was being settled. "Was there a statement in the decree read out on Monday evening with the criminal amnesty inside? No, because that was the subject of a political meeting and Conte read the general terms of the agreement in the cabinet meeting," Di Maio said on Facebook.
    "I don't want to be made to look a liar and, for that reason, when they say I was distracted, I say No".