Italian culture minister quits after affair scandal embarrasses Meloni government

Italian culture minister quits after affair scandal embarrasses Meloni government

Maria Rosaria Boccia, Gennaro Sangiuliano’s former lover, said she was nominated as an unpaid adviser last month

The Italian culture minister quit on Friday after a controversy over a consultancy role for his former lover had become an embarrassment for prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government.

Gennaro Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, had faced a media storm since Maria Rosaria Boccia, a self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur, said last month she had been nominated “adviser to the minister for major events”.

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