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2.31pm Monday 24 June 2024
He swore it to her and so he did. Having archived the regional and European polls in the fifth city of Piedmont, the mayor sends away the councilor with the most votes in the last elections. The epilogue of a feud that has lasted for years. In her place Antonella Parigi, defeated in the race for Brussels
After many lightning strikes, the storm. TO Moncalierififth city of Piedmontthe council crisis opened in the aftermath of the regional elections by the Pd mayor Paolo Montagnaends today with the rotation of the now former councilor Laura Pompeo And Antonella Parigiformer owner of Culture in the Region with Sergio Chiamparino and an unsuccessful candidate for the European elections where she garnered 10,000 preferences without being elected. “A new page opens: culture and equal opportunities at the center of the Moncalieri of the future” states mayor Montagna. Paris also has delegations to Tourism, Theaters and Museums, Royal Residences, International Relations and Relations with the Metropolitan City. This brings to an end a controversy that has lasted, with ups and downs, since the end of the last mandate.
The mayor’s political action has been intertwined with his judicial affairs for years now. In 2017 he was accused first of “illegal access to a computer system”, which was protected and accessible only by the police, and then for two “ideological forgeries”. Montagna, in fact, instead of serving his sentence by carrying out “probation”, providing help and assistance to elderly psychiatric patients at the Molinette hospital in Turin and at the civil protection transmission unit in Moncalieri, did something completely different. The ten-month plea deal will be held in June 2022. Meanwhile, in 2021 another notice of investigation arrives for attempted extortion in the context of the elections for the Turin Metropolitan Council.
And it is precisely on his affairs with the justice system that the secretary of the subalpine Democratic Party Marcello Mazzù attacked him, first during the electoral campaign for the regional elections and then the day after the polls closed, when in retaliation he had suspended Pompeo’s delegations. All this while Montagna’s transition from the Bonaccini area to that of was completed Elly Schleinthrough an axis with the Cuneo deputy Chiara Gribaudo, increasingly structured even beyond the borders of Granda. And it is precisely in this changed scenario that the appointment of Paris takes place, also organic in line with the multigender secretary while Pompeo, close to the parliamentarian Mauro Lausis part of the reformist component.
Moncalieri was the epicenter of the clash between the two different factions in the last regional elections: Pompeo, on ticket with Daniele Valleagainst Silvia Di Crescenzo supported by Montagna-Gribaudo to the disadvantage of Diego Sarno, also a Bonaccinian, and for this reason remained the victim (unwittingly until the end) of a challenge in which the territorial pact signed between Nichelino and Moncalieri evaporated. At the moment Pompeo is the first of those excluded on the Dem list, but given the gap of only 18 votes she could be included in the recount underway at the Court. If this were the case, a new chapter would open in a saga that could last for a long time, at least until 2026 when Moncalieri will have to elect Montagna’s successor.
