Opposition call for FdI's Bignami to be disciplined over false Scalfaro claim

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 7 - The Lower House whips of Italy's opposition parties on Friday wrote to Speaker Lorenzo Fontana calling on him to take disciplinary action against Galeazzo Bignami, the caucus head of Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, for falsely saying that late, former Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro released 300 mafia convicts. Bignami made the claim on Wednesday during debate on whether to grant a request from Rome prosecutors for access to cha...

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