A letter from the president of the national anti-mafia commission Chiara Colosimo was delivered in recent days to all the parties preparing for the challenge regional elections in Piedmont. The number one body of Parliament asked the leaders of the political groups to send the names and surnames of the candidates to the Region in advance of the deadlines for the official presentation of the lists.
As always, every time there is an electoral competition, the bicameral commission publishes the list of “unpresentables”, after having examined the candidates’ records or the information concerning them, according to a self-regulation code that the parties have given themselves. So, to avoid being too long with the times, this time the president Colosimo (MP of FdI) he asked to have the names in advancealso to avoid unpleasant surprises when the lists are already presented, especially after the storm that overwhelmed the Democratic Party a month ago following the Echidna investigation which led to the resignation of the former socialist ras Salvatore Gallo and the renunciation of the candidacy of son Raffaele.
«We are transmitting the lists at this time – says the Piedmontese secretary of the Democratic Party Domenico Rossi, who yesterday presented the code of ethics that center-left candidates will be asked to sign -. And we hope that all the other parties will do the same.” Also The Greens and Left Alliance has already sent the names, with all references. On the other hand, there are only a few days left until the lists are filed for June 8th and 9th. «It was December 2019 when the judiciary found a “package” under the tree of the Cirio council: votes of the ‘ndrangheta bought by the councilor and regional councilor Roberto Rosso – recalls Avs deputy Marco Grimaldi -. This is why you need to know in advance if there are any unpresentable figures in your ranks or even if there is information in progress.”
An event, that of five years ago, on which the dem Rossi also reminds President Cirio of the commitments he had undertaken: «The beginning of this legislature led by the centre-right in the Region is was marked by the arrest and conviction of Rosso for a vote of political-mafia exchange, and President Cirio limited himself to announcing a code of ethics for councilors and training courses for everyone: but we are still waiting for them.” Thus, to archive the Gallo affair, the Democratic Party relaunches on the issue of legality, making it its own flag. Although to tell the truth not everyone in the center-left appreciates it, starting with Italia Viva which has made it known that it does not want to follow the Dems on this ground.
