The polling station set up in the school complex named after Don Lorenzo Celsi, in Ameglia, is a few hundred meters from the house where Giovanni Toti has been under house arrest for a month. And there, in section 2 of the only polling station set up in Ameglia that the governor went to vote this morning. He was able to do so by virtue of the permission, requested by his lawyer Stefano Savi, granted by the investigating judge Paola Faggioni who granted the governor one hour to go and vote accompanied by the Guardia di Finanza of La Spezia and with the absolute ban on speaking to anyone, except for normal voting operations.
The polling station is besieged by photographers who want an image of Toti going to vote, but also by several onlookers who stopped for a while after voting to see the governor get in line with his voter card in hand. Dark jacket, striped shirt without tie, blue trousers and loafers, the governor appeared smiling. He completed the voting operations and returned to his home. An hour of (almost) freedom to exercise a constitutional right.
A right that will also be enjoyed by the others arrested in the investigation that shook Liguria: some under house arrest, like Roberto Spinelli, some in prison, like Paolo Emilio Signorini, given that there are also polling stations in prison institutions.
The entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli, however, made it known in recent days that he would not vote. Meanwhile, the investigation continues, as vast as it is complex: the investigators have acquired the software used by Primocanale, the Genoese television broadcaster whose editor Maurizio Rossi is under investigation. One of the investigative hypotheses is that Toti received funding for his party through the payment of advertising spots by Esselunga in exchange for an acceleration of the procedures for the opening of supermarkets.
The former director of Esselunga, Francesco Moncada (under investigation and subject to interdiction), explicitly asks “how he can lend a hand for the electoral campaign of Mayor Marco Bucci”. According to the prosecutor’s office, everyone finds help through a trick. “On the screen – explained Rossi – I can say that I give him ten passes and then, say, I give him fifty”.
In addition to Toti, the former resigning mayor of Avellino, Gianluca Festa, currently under house arrest because he is being investigated in a proceeding by the Irpinia prosecutor’s office, also went to the polling station after obtaining the green light from the investigating judge. After greeting the president and members of the polling station, he voted and returned to his home which is a few hundred meters away
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