He changed his mind. He had been there since the afternoon. She had agreed to everything, but at the last minute, a few seconds before the broadcast, Maria Rosaria Boccia decided not to grant her interview, in the studio and live, to Bianca Berlinguer. The failing consultant of the former Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano did not feel like telling his truth about the former minister's case to È sempre Cartabianca. And the presenter herself tried to give him the reasons in the studio. According to the planned schedule, Boccia should have answered Berlinguer's questions and then there would have been a debate with the guests in the studio during which the businesswoman could have spoken from the outside if she considered it necessary. Berlinguer initially proposed an individual interview. But Boccia herself would have wanted the comparison with the other guests in the studio, including Concita De Gregorio, Annalisa Chirico, Andrea Scanzi and especially Alessandro Sallusti. Boccia could return to the studio next week. “I hope he keeps the commitment he promised us before leaving this company. The meeting lasted a long time, she came here with the intention of telling the truth, because according to her, the minister did not say it,” Berlinguer reiterated. “She told us – she said – that new elements that we were unaware of had emerged and that she reserved the right to contact the editorial staff again, with in fact the commitment to confront us again on the basis of new elements that, in some way, I should have come out tonight to review next week. In any case, “we did not talk about questions but about the approach” of the interview, Berlinguer stressed in a subsequent exchange in the studio during the interview with the guests.
“No compensation agreed”
“She never asked for compensation, from the first moment I called her until she started her studies,” the presenter later explained to the guests. And once again, the guests in the studio spoke out on the subject. Sallusti called her totally “unreliable, someone who talks a lot of bullshit.” And finally the journalist Concita De Gregorio: “He told me a few moments ago that he had not had a sexual relationship with the former minister, but only an emotional relationship. I say this because he could declare it in the next few hours.” It is not clear but the situation could have worsened precisely after Boccia's meeting with the presenter and other guests expected in the evening.
The shadow of political pressure
In the evening, rumors circulated that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had called Pier Silvio Berlusconi to order him to arrest the Pompeii businesswoman. Concita, however, denied this information live: “I didn't see any intervention.” Arriving at the Mediaset studios, Boccia first met only the editorial staff, Berlinguer and finally Concita. And it was precisely in the dialogue with her that the entrepreneur understood that she would not support him. Or rather, there would not be the same climate perceived with Luca Telese and Marianna Aprile on In Onda. Sallusti imagined it, he knew that Chirico would also be hostile, but he believed he had Scanzi and Concita as supporters. Instead, he understands that the journalist is criticizing Sangiuliano, but he does not congratulate her and wants to ask hostile questions. At this point, according to what was gathered by Open, Boccia claims that the debate would be unbalanced and that the journalists who should interview him are not sufficiently informed about what happened. Thus the situation worsens and the failing consultant leaves the Mediaset studios. Finally, once the debate has started, after Sallusti accuses him of having invented a pregnancy, the message reaches the presenter. “If I left, it was because there were no conditions to better explain the situation, I did not run away,” explains Maria Rosaria Boccia. The latest theatrical coup from the Pompeian, who once again dictates the lines in the studio. Even from outside.
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