Maurizo Belpietro, the editor of right-wing daily La Verita who ran a story he wrote saying one of President Sergio Mattarella's closest advisors was plotting to stop Premier Giorgia Meloni from serving out her term and standing again in 2027, said the presidential Quirinale palace's response, which characterised a demand for a denial by a Meloni whip as verging on the ridiculous, was "institutionally incorrect" because the advisor should have issued the allegedly required denial.     "We