With 30 votes against And 18 in favor was rejected by the Puglia Regional Council motion of no confidence presented by the centre-right towards the president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano.
The centre-left is compact. The M5s and Action groups also voted against the motion. Two were absent.
“I don’t deserve to be disheartened”
«I honestly don’t deserve to be disheartened. I tell you this from the bottom of my heart. I will have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but not to the point of being disheartened at a time when, in twenty years of very hard work, we have truly changed the history of this Region». The president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, said this in his speech during the regional council in which it was discussed the motion of no confidence presented by the centre-right councillors.
«In this last month we have gone through a political and media storm of enormous proportions», but «there isn’t even one investigation into the Puglia region, not even one. There is no challenge to the trials you are hearing about that concerns the Puglia Region”, stated Emiliano. «Of course – he added – there are certainly preliminary investigations underway, which concern managers, other subjects, but nothing that concerns the political level, who indeed, on several occasions, was the protagonist of the complaint, because the multimillion-dollar scam, unfortunately, of those professionals, of those lawyers, who in collusion with some employees of the Region committed scams, taking advantage of the injunctive decrees in agriculture, we discovered it, I have to be honest, me and the head of the Bar. We recently noticed that there were some employees who believed they were repaying a lawyer’s fee that they had already paid. We will try to establish how and under what terms; and we noticed it. We removed him and recovered the sums. Even the latest investigation mentioned in the news began with the engineer Valenzano, who obviously reported it: she realized – Emiliano recalled – that there was a guarantee that was probably not true. So important work has been done, within the limits of our possibilities, because we do not have investigative means, and I must say that we probably do not even have investigative power, in the sense that we have supervisory power, which is something very different from to investigate”.
«We want to build a broad democratic front»
«It is clear that leading a majority is never a simple thing, especially when the majority is as ambitious as ours. As we have already done in the past on behalf of those who were unable to do so in Rome, we have the ambition of building a broad democratic frontbroad, which brings together all the progressive forces in our country, to prepare the future of this country”, stated Emiliano in his speech.
«It is something that we try to do in the political laboratory of the Puglia Region. In this context it must be clear that the involvement of the 5 Star Movement in my administration was not an act of transformation, it was an act to which I had committed myself during the electoral campaign”.
