These days, Puglia predominates unhappyinstead of Puglia felix which has dominated the national and international scene for decades. How much has been said about Puglia as the California of the Mediterranean and, at the same time, how much has been said that Puglia has its own peculiarity that has nothing to do with twentieth-century California.
It is not the best situation, due to endogenous political forces, to talk about Puglia, even though it has the privilege of hosting the G7. Yet, the vast majority of the powerful in the world, in this ranking we include, primarilyPope Francis, will have the opportunity to admire Puglia and taste the foods of the great Apulian culinary tradition.
At the moment, however, in Puglia, the atmosphere is toxic, politically, due to the various judicial investigations. In all of this, the lawyer Nancy Dell’Olio got involved, who has Apulian-Bisceglie roots, although she was born in New York – who with her interview with Corriere della Sera did not do Puglia any favors , vice versa, the opposite. On the one hand, you intend to report the Puglia Region to the judiciary, for reasons which we will discuss in the next paragraphs, on the other, you give a negative opinion to the Borgo Egnazia resort, where the G7 will take place from 13 to 15 June.
Nancy Dell’Olio also gained notoriety for her relationship with the Lazio coach, Sven Göran Eriksson, who was diagnosed with an incurable disease. Which we are very sorry about.
God only knows what the legal affairs of the resort’s owner, Massimo Melpignano, have to do with Borgo Egnazia-G7. Nancy Dell’Olio, instead of appreciating the choice made by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to hold the three days of the G7 in Fasano, throws it there, making justicialist nonsense, without any reason, taking the conviction for corruption as a pretext, with the plea deal of a year and a half, by Sergio Melpignano. The founder of Borgo Egnazia died after a long illness. His brother, Stefano, also deceased, was an important manager who administered the companies of the former IRI, Industrial Reconstruction Institute. Stefano Melpignano was part ofinner circle of the then secretary of the DC, Ciriaco De Mita, and he was someone who counted and had his say. Nancy Dell’Olio, paradoxically, does not make any criticism of the resort; moreover, she could have said that it is an “artist’s forgery”, so well made and truthful that it could be confused with a typical traditional medieval Apulian architectural construction, with all the super modern day comfort. Still. She could have even panned the resort, calling it kitsch, let’s say that she could even agree with it, but putting it on a justicialist level is really not. And then, for a lawyer, putting her on this level is a contradiction. Well, we need to understand in which story Sergio Melpignano was involved, given that the scales of the Lady Luck of Justice are not always in balance. However, placing the Melpignano affair in a judicial context, my lady, is off the mark. In the current context, the judicial history of the Judiciary has nothing to do with it de cuius, because it counts for having created a great work that is talked about not only in Italy, but throughout the world.
The holding of the G7 in Borgo Egnazia, for the «Knight of Merit of the Republic» (she was awarded the medal of the prestigious honor by President Giorgio Napolitano in 2014) turned up her nose and stated: «It doesn’t seem like a choice to me something to be proud of.”
For us who have seen so much, we have the doubt that the lawyer will reject the choice of the resort in the Fasano area, because it was not involved in this historic event for Italy and especially for Puglia. To put it bluntly, Nancy Dell’Olio is a “senior expert for international public relations activities” by profession and this says a lot about her sortie on Borgo Egnazia.
That said, there is Nancy Dell’Olio’s story with Michele Emiliano where not all the psalms end in glory. If anything, the relationship between the two ends – so to speak – with “stamped papers”, i.e. through legal means.
You will sue the Puglia Region, because “it is a question of dignity”, given that it has not kept its commitments: the contract was not renewed, “despite many successes achieved”.
At the time, she was tasked with carrying out the role of “ambassador of Puglia in the world” and now she feels betrayed not so much by Emiliano who she considers “a skilled politician”, but rather by his collaborators “of low professionalism”, “who have put against her, because she is outside their system. They responded with jealousy and political interests.” And she rattled off the rosary of names and surnames that, for the sake of our country, we avoid doing.
Another tough nut to crack for Michele Emiliano who would like to end his term as president on a high note. And the Apulians can’t wait for anything else.
