Sigfrido Ranucci denies a hypothesis of candidacy and defends Report

"Me running for office? I don't think about it. Then if they kick me out of RAI itself....". Sigfrido Ranucci responded like this, laughing, to journalists who asked him if he was thinking of running for office, on the sidelines of the presentation of his book "The return of the caste" in Rome.

During the presentation, the journalist then said: "They don't fear that I will run, but they fear that I will be the host of Report, because they fear independent journalism."

"The poll was a surprise, because I neither announced that I am running nor did I campaign", Ranucci said then, answering a question on a SWG poll published by La7 which gives him 7% approval. "More interesting is the part that concerns the 23% who, when asked if they would vote for me, say 'maybe' or the 30% who say 'I don't know' - he continued -. But even more interesting, in my opinion, is that part which has not been published which talks about my credibility and the credibility of the Report investigations which is above 60% after three months of shameful campaigns, the greatest character assassination in history. Someone will also have to tell these people who wrote all these articles that they made a mistake."

Then he spoke about Prime Minister Meloni. "I read that Giorgia Meloni complained because they made me a martyr. She didn't regret because they killed me and the people close to me, with the largest character assassination in history. This says a lot about the concept of democracy that our prime minister has. How a person who has mentioned my name several times like La Russa conceives it, saying that we need to change Ranucci, as long as there isn't a worse one, and we need to change the format of Report as if he were the publisher. Salvini who has having said that I have to explain my acquaintances, not him... are those of his son-in-law and his father-in-law, who was convicted of bankruptcy, okay? Do I have to explain my acquaintances with Lavitola who planted a bomb in me?