Rome, Aug. 3 (LaPresse) – “Ahead of tomorrow morning’s hearing, I resigned from the Covid Commission and it will finally be up to me to speak in order to sweep away all the mud.” This was announced on social media by M5s leader Giuseppe Conte, attaching to the post the letter sent to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, and to the president of the commission, Marco Lisei. “Mr President, the undersigned, Hon. Giuseppe Conte, hereby submits his resignation as a member of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the management of the health emergency caused by the epidemic spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the measures adopted to prevent and address the SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological emergency, in order to be heard by the same Commission, confirming his availability in this regard, already expressed in October 2024, on June 27, 2026 and, most recently, on July 6, 2026,” Conte wrote in the letter. “My resignation is appropriate considering that, at the meeting of the same Commission scheduled for Aug. 4, 2026, at 9:30 a.m., I will be heard as a witness in my capacity as President of the Council of Ministers at the time of the events under investigation.” “In order to avoid any possible situation of incompatibility, I therefore believe it is my duty to submit my resignation from the position,” Conte concluded.
Covid, Conte: “Ahead of tomorrow’s hearing, I resigned from the Commission”
Rome, Aug. 3 (LaPresse) – “Ahead of tomorrow morning’s hearing, I resigned from the Covid Commission and it will finally be up to me to speak in order to sweep away all the mud.” This was announced on social media by M5s leader Giuseppe Conte, attaching to the post the letter sent to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, and to the president of the commission, Marco Lisei. “Mr President, the undersigned, Hon. Giuseppe Conte, hereby submits his resignation as a member of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the management of the health emergency caused by the epidemic spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the measures adopted to prevent and address the SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological emergency, in order to be heard by the same Commission, confirming his availability in this regard, already expressed in October 2024, on June 27, 2026 and, most recently, on July 6, 2026,” Conte wrote in the letter. “My resignation is appropriate considering that, at the meeting of the same Commission scheduled for Aug. 4, 2026, at 9:30 a.m., I will be heard as a witness in my capacity as President of the Council of Ministers at the time of the events under investigation.” “In order to avoid any possible situation of incompatibility, I therefore believe it is my duty to submit my resignation from the position,” Conte concluded.
