The League politician — who serves as a transport undersecretary but is a key economic adviser to the party’s leader, Matteo Salvini, and a close ally of Steve Bannon — is being investigated over whether he accepted a €30,000 bribe from a businessman in return for pushing specific renewable energy policies. [...]
The populist 5Stars have repeatedly called for Siri’s resignation. “When there’s the mafia involved, we can’t wait for the trial before deciding. [Siri] must go,” Luigi Di Maio, the 5Stars leader, said Thursday. According to prosecutors in Rome, Paolo Arata, the man who allegedly bribed Siri, was in business with Vito Nicastri, a Sicilian businessman facing a possible 12-year jail sentence for his alleged ties to the mafia. [...]
Agriculture Minister Gian Marco Centinaio, also from the League, told a radio show that Conte has no powers to remove Siri from office, and said “if he were to issue a decree to oust him against our will, we’d withdraw our confidence in the prime minister.”
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