Chaos Pd Puglia, Schlein ultimatum to Emiliano: “We need a new start, it’s not enough to replace those who have left”. The governor: “I will follow the instructions”

“I asked Emiliano to follow up on what I said last Friday in Bari: keep away quick-change artists, defectors from the centre-right and people on whose moral rigor there is the slightest shadow. In the Democratic Party that we are rebuilding, the wrong interests and opaque methods must find closed and sealed doors. I expect it to proceed […]

“I asked Emiliano to follow up on what I said last Friday in Bari: keep transformers awaydefectors from the center-right and people on whose moral rigor there is the slightest shade. In the Democratic Party that we are rebuilding, the wrong interests and opaque methods must find closed and sealed doors. I therefore expect him to proceed with a clear phase changewhich cannot translate into one mere replacement of those who came out, but only in a concrete way renovation of the regional government structures that marks a new beginning, on different bases. I trust that Emiliano will work along this line quickly and with tangible results.” Thus the Democratic secretary Elly Schlein he asks his governor for a radical cleanup Michele Emilianoafter the investigations which in recent days led to the resignation of Anita Maurodinoiatransport councilor of the Apulian council under investigation for vote swapping, and of Alfonso Pisicchiocommissioner of the Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation (Arts) and in turn very loyal to the president (he was a councilor in the last legislature) under house arrest for corruption.

Already on Thursday morning, the day after Pisicchio’s arrest, the Nazarene had communicated “strong irritation of the secretary for the judicial affairs of these days” and his request to Emiliano for “maximum rigor and concrete actions”. A few minutes after the new intervention, Emiliano’s public reply arrived, in which – apparently – he sprinkles his head with ashes: “In recent days I have explored in depth with the secretary Elly Schlein the terms of the situation that has arisen following judicial initiatives which, although not having reference to any activity of the regional council, they cannot leave us indifferent and less than ever helpless. I will therefore follow up on the instructions of the secretary with whom we share the need to signal a clear change of phase that gives the sense of a history dedicated to the protection of legality and the fight against all forms of crime also through political activity daily,” he says.

However, the governor does not clarify whether the council will be eliminated, after – again on Thursday – the M5s leader Giuseppe Conte the Welfare councilor has formalized the exit of the five-star members from the regional government Grace Barone and the councilor with responsibility for Culture Grace of Bari. A prospect that the governor dismissed in an interview on Friday Done: “My council has no connection with the events that occurred, it is not interested in the investigations. Only Anita Maurodinoia was involved, but not for her work as a transport councilor. She resigned: therefore the reset has already occurred”. The same position was reiterated in the afternoon Huffpost: “We don’t reset. We just have to complete the holesthe. Complete the assembly and continue working with great serenity. I’m missing two councilors,” said Emiliano. Also no to the hypothesis of a commissionership of the Puglia PD: “The party is healthy and is absolutely capable of managing the situation.”