Election weekend full of controversy for Michele Emiliano which, evidently, struggles to behave in an impeccable manner from an institutional point of view. If this morning this storm had broken out regarding a meeting of the president of the Puglia Region with the leaders of the ASL of the province of Lecce in complete electoral silence, instead of maintaining a little caution until the counting of the ballots of the Municipal elections, the former mayor of Bari saw fit to worsen his position from the point of view of political opportunity when the polling stations are open in eight Apulian municipalities.
In fact, it happens that in the evening Emiliano sent a message via WhatsApp to some contacts, according to what was reported by the site Fifth Power. “The turnout in Bari is low, please call all your contacts and ask them to go and vote – writes the Apulian president -. The fact that a candidate received the majority of votes does not make the run-off election useless. No one has won yet just because they got over 70% of the votes in the first round“. And then again: “Mobilize everyone and ask him to go and vote. Voting until tomorrow at 3pm. Come on, come on, voting is a right, but also a duty. Spin everywhere“, adds Emiliano. All this taking into account that at 11pm on Sunday the overall turnout in Puglia was 32.3%, with Bari still at 27.1% and Lecce at 45.7%.
Another fool after what had been made public in recent hours by the local television station Telerama, according to which Emiliano, on the morning of Saturday 22 June, had held a “behind closed doors” meeting with “some friends belonging to different social and professional categories to also talk about ballot in Lecce“. The story was received from a letter addressed to the prefect by the deputy Claudio Stefanazzi, of the Democratic Party. “A very serious violation of the rules“, immediately wrote the supporters of Adriana Poli Bortone, candidate for mayor of the Salento capital for the center-right now in the run-off against the dem Carlo Salvemini.
A circumvention of electoral rules”all the more serious because it comes from an institutional figure, the President of the Region, who should be a figure of guarantee for the entire Apulian population“.
Emiliano therefore would not have had too many hesitations “in summoning the heads of the Lecce hospital to induce them to vote for the centre-left candidate Salvemini“, demonstrating that Apulian public health, “lfar from being at the service of citizens, regardless of their political identities, it has become solely and exclusively an instrument of political power, with all that this entails in terms of impartiality and credibility“. The local coalition of Fratelli d’Italia, Lega and Forza Italia also announced a exposed. In short: a not exactly edifying weekend for the president of Puglia.
