Divided but contemporary squares a Lecce in view of the ballot on June 23rd and 24th. The two challengers, Adriana Poli Bortone (centre-right) e Carlo Salvemini (centre-left) have raised the issue moral.
The former senator, on her initiative, was interviewed for 2 hours with 3 “sets” of questions by the director of the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno Mimmo Mazza, by the director of Quotidiano Rosario Tornesello, by the director of Telerama news Gianfranco Lattante, by the editor-in-chief of Antenna Sud Maria Teresa Carrozzo, by the editor of Repubblica Bari Pierfrancesco Albanese and by the editorialist of Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Claudio Scamardella. Key words of this second call to vote, which according to Poli Bortone will bring his voters back to the polls without problems (“the people of Lecce have found political motivation with us”), were morality and legality: and here the lashes to the Municipality and Region of Puglia have reached the maximum peak of political invective, under the thunder of applause from his supporters.
«Lecce belongs to the chain of immorality that exists in Puglia: we cannot forget what is happening in Bari, from the Lerario scandal to the Maurodinoia one. Do you see these pages? These are the decisions with which direct assignments and assignments have been given since 2018, which we in the City Council have always tried to stem. 110 thousand euros were given for a person to check whether the trees remained standing in the city, then there is another consultant who was nominated on a civic list.” To then end with a tombstone on the investigations that involved her in the Via Brenta and Boc case: “I came out unscathed because the fact doesn’t exist.”
Carlo Salvemini’s rally last night, in an Ariosto square, opened with “political solidarity with parliamentarian Leonardo Donno”, attacked in the Chamber “by some Lega parliamentarians annoyed that the Tricolor could be waved”. Hence the invitation «to grasp the analogies with the climate of poison, arrogance and tension that is felt in Lecce in these hours: we – he said in the introduction – are a calm force, but we are no longer willing to suffer the slap of the soldier”, or a crescendo of insults and attacks from the centre-right.
On honesty, the outgoing mayor threw down his gauntlet to Poli Bortone: «For months I’ve been hearing about a dossier on alleged misdeeds that I allegedly committed, but I haven’t seen anything, not a sheet of paper or even a piece of paper, yet in the Over the course of these days, in this matter, someone has even bothered to involve a person very dear to me: my father, Stefano. So I say to Adriana Poli Bortone: I am ready to accompany her to the Prosecutor’s Office to hand over this dossier and report the wrongdoings that I have allegedly committed. If we are talking about honesty, I am ready, let them know, to face any political DNA test. If you want to establish a discussion about morality with me and our community, try it.” Then the conclusion, on the notes of Patti Smith with “People have the power”: «Politics is an extraordinary thing when it is responsible for changing people’s lives and not personal destinies. Come on, let’s move on.”
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