Milan, 29 August (LaPresse) – "I think about it and I am preparing myself for this possibility. I have my sadness as a mother and now also as a grandmother, but I have realised that this thought cannot and must not take over my life. I am trying to live this situation with balance. Thanks to God, and this is not a cliché, I have managed to get my life back on track." These are the words of Irene Pivetti, former president of the Chamber of Deputies, sentenced to four years for tax evasion and self-laundering and facing a new trial for a case involving the purchase of Chinese masks during the Covid pandemic, in an interview with Corriere della Sera about the possibility of imprisonment. ‘The Lord knows what he is doing, and I trust him,’ she adds. When asked whether her notoriety and the fact that her name is Irene Pivetti may have worked to her disadvantage, she replies that "some people think so, but I don't believe in conspiracies. I think rather that the system condemns you simply for doing business. In an instant, you find yourself splashed across the front page. This is also part of the system that takes away your dignity, ruins your image and destroys you financially. I am not ashamed to say that I have resorted to food parcels from San Vincenzo. They didn't take my house away because I didn't have one, but this has happened to others." ‘I don't want to arouse pity, I have never complained. I talk about myself because I have the opportunity to do so and I want to be the voice of those in my situation. How many entrepreneurs have lost everything and then been found innocent?’ adds the former president of the Chamber of Deputies, who, when asked if politics has left her alone, replies: ‘Yes, but I didn't expect anything and I can't blame anyone.’
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