Milan, 8 Jan. (LaPresse) – ‘One thing I want to say and it is the only reason that makes me break the secrecy I have imposed on myself over the past few months: I am not going away by slamming the door’. Elisabetta Belloni said this in an interview with Corriere della Sera. ‘The meat grinder in which I have ended up in recent days requires me to clarify what has happened and above all to clear the field of inferences that hurt not so much me as the country, especially at such a delicate time,’ says the Dis director, who has submitted her resignation and will leave on 15 January. She, who at every crucial moment in the country's history has always been indicated as the possible candidate, explains that she realised that even with the new year ‘I would be back on the gridiron’, reports the Corriere della Sera, which begins its reconstruction from 11 December, when Italy handed over the baton of the G7 presidency and thus Belloni's tenure as sherpa also came to an end. Before the election of Sergio Mattarella to the Quirinale, Belloni was the name credited by the centre-right as President of the Republic. And even after the fall of the Draghi government there were those who included her in the shortlist of possible heads of the new executive. It happened again in December, when Pnrr minister Raffaele Fitto was nominated vice-president of the European Commission and rumours gave Belloni's nomination in his place as imminent. 'I am a state official, I do my job and it is not obligatory to like everyone or to get along with everyone. As long as this does not call into question the results, which in fact it did not. But in May my term of office expires, when I felt that rumours were already starting to circulate about my future and especially about my successor, I felt it was time to leave,' says Belloni. 'I talked about it with my institutional interlocutors, first and foremost Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Undersecretary Mantovano. It is with them that, since the beginning of December, we have mapped out the path for a smooth and smooth transition,' he said.
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