Belloni clarifies: "I don’t leave by slamming the door"

“I want to say one thing and it is the only reason that makes me break the reserve that I have imposed on myself all these months: I don’t go away slamming the door”. Elisabetta Belloni says it – in an interview with “Il Corriere della Sera” – regarding the decision to leave the leadership of Dis as of next January 15th.

“The meat grinder in which I have ended up in recent days – she explains – requires me to clarify what has happened and above all to clear the field of allegations that hurt not so much me as the country, especially in such a delicate moment”.
At every crucial moment in the country’s history, Corriere della Sera notes, the current director of the DIS has always been indicated as the possible candidate and even with the new year Belloni understood that “I would be back on the gridiron”.

“I am a state official, I do my job and it is not obligatory to please everyone or get along with everyone. As long as this – Belloni further specifies in the conversation with the ‘Corriere della Sera’ – does not call into question the results, as in fact it did not happen My term expires in Maywhen I noticed that rumors were already starting to circulate about my future and above all about my successor, I thought the time had come to leave. And I talked about it with my institutional interlocutors, first of all the prime minister Giorgia Meloni and the Undersecretary Mantovano. It is with them that, since the beginning of December, we have paved the way for a smooth and smooth transition.”

Was it really appropriate to confirm the resignation? Wouldn’t it have been better to wait for Cecilia Sala to return to Italy before making her farewell known? “I’m still in office – observes Belloni – and I’m certainly not failing in my duties. This is why it hurts me even more to be portrayed as someone who runs away or even goes away leaving rubble behind. It’s not like that, it could never be It was no coincidence that it had been an exit was agreed upon with maximum transparency. Unfortunately it went differently and for this reason I feel the obligation to clarify how things really are.”

The latest rumors, it is revealed in the interview, accredit her a future in the staff of the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen: “It would be an honor but even on this – she concludes – I want to be clear in saying that nothing has been decided. I will start thinking about my future on January 16th”.