Doing what Draghi did on Audit Court says Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 5 - The government is only doing what the previous government of Mario Draghi did in removing the Audit Court's 'concomitant' oversight powers on the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Premier Giorgia Meloni said Monday.
    The court and the political opposition have slammed the government's move, in a public-administration decree, to strip the auditors of concurrent oversight powers, only leaving them with subsequent control powers.
    "The left is very much in trouble. It is not only saying that there is an authoritarian drift if on the Court of Auditors you extend the rules of the Draghi government. I summarily observe that we are doing what the previous government did," Meloni told the Quarta Repubblica news programme on Berlusconi channel Retequattro.
    "The problem is that there is an authoritarian drift if someone who comes from the right and not the left does not have the same rights as they have. That is a problem. They say there is an authoritarian drift on the Court of Auditors which continues to do the checks, does the six-monthly report and no one has put a gag on it". (ANSA).