The investigations that have involved the Puglia region “They don’t concern the council.” The governor said so Michele Emilianospeaking to journalists on the sidelines of the inauguration of the new premises of the medical guard in Foggia.
«There is nothing that concerns the Puglia Region council, there is no investigation, there is no accusation – said Emiliano -. There are some events that also happened to a councilor, which led him to resignationbut they are facts that concern her and her husband and have nothing to do with the activity of the junta. The same thing can be said for the Bari council where there are no charges relating to administrative activity”.
Journalists asked the governor about recent investigations for exchange vote which also involved exponents of the centre-left both in the Municipality of Bari and in the Region.
«Naturally – added Emiliano – events of 2019, 2020 and 2021 which are then condensed into two months, have had a very strong media effect, and unfortunately in Puglia there is a very serious shortage of magistrates. Some of the measures that were carried out had been requested by the prosecutor’s office a year earlier and then they were all condensed together shortly before the elections. Welcome. I thank the judiciary for all the work it is doing despite the staff shortage».
“We have to replace people on the council”
«It is clear that we we have to replace people on the council. Unfortunately in Rome they don’t know this well, there is a regional statute which obliges the president to choose the councilors not from 60 million people but from 30 elected from its majoritywhich is obviously quite complicated”, continued Michele Emiliano.
The secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schleinreiterated that he had asked Emiliano «a clear renewal of the structures of the regional government, which cannot be translated into the mere replacement of those who have left”. An event is scheduled for the afternoon in Bari majority meeting.
