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09 October 2019The League's Raffaele Volpi, former Undersecretary of Defense, was elected president of Copasir. He got 6 votes. The white cards were 3, one vote went to Elio Vito of Forza Italia. The election dispelled the "doubts" present within the majority, up until this morning, with respect to the possibility of entrusting the Copasir presidency to a member of the League.Appointment to the opposition
The assignment is up to a representative of the oppositions by law and yesterday the center-right had closed a unitary agreement which indicated the candidate in the Carroccio deputy. To be elected, Volpi needed 6 votes, or an absolute majority of the Copasir, composed by law of 50% by majority members and 50% by opposition parliamentarians.
backstage
"We found the agreement yesterday. The whole center is united". In the Lega, as well as in Fratelli d'Italia, there is satisfaction for the Copasir leadership entrusted to former Undersecretary of Defense Raffele Volpi. A parliamentary source of Fratelli d'Italia underlines: "We forced Salvini for the first time to make a real negotiation". Fi's position was more nuanced, even though Salvini and Meloni contacted Berlusconi to get the go-ahead. In the majority, especially on the 5-star side, there were doubts about the hypothesis of having such a delicate body guided by an exponent 'ex lumbard'.
Russiagate
The Russiagate affair is intertwined with the vote on the presidency of the Copasir, but they have eliminated the perplexities of the Quirinale: "There is no information to the Quirinale about the case in question, also because the Quirinale does not usually receive news of single operations of collaboration in progress among allied countries ". Thus sources of the Quirinale al Messaggero.it on an alleged information from Palazzo Chigi on the requests of the Trump administration to the Italian government linked to the Russiagate affair.