The show alleged she had run businesses that allegedly failed to pay suppliers and allegedly dismissed workers without giving them redundancy payments that were due to them.
The M5S caucus whips said the Speakers should arrange the hearing “urgently” on the “serious” claims made by the investigative show Report.
Santanché, a senior member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, has said she will sue the program.
Santanché said Saturday that if she is asked to report to parliament on the allegations against her business practices she will be proud to do so.
“If the request is formalised that I have to go and report to Parliament I will be proud and proud to do so,” she said.
Santanché was speaking on the sidelines of an event in Ischia.
Asked if she feared an indictment, the minister replied: “I have not (even) received a notice of investigation, I do not understand how one can speak of an indictment.”
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