“Toti? I don’t know if Meloni is dumping him or not, I only know that the precedent that would be created is a serious one because there is an investigation and up to the third level of judgment every accused should be innocent until proven guilty.” As Andrea Crippadeputy secretary of the League, out of Montecitorio. “Resignation? For us, as long as there is no conviction he should not resign – he continued – I have heard from all the centre-right political forces a guarantee principle, then if the judiciary declares him guilty we will take into consideration what to do. After that if it becomes corruption of the financing regular from entrepreneurs to parties, here we need to make an argument on how they can be done hold up the parties because electoral campaigns cost money and if there is no public financing it is clear that the money has to be obtained from somewhere”. Crippa also reiterated the refrain of “clockwork justice”: “The fact that these investigations always arrive a month or two after the European elections makes you think and they are strange coincidences. And since we are talking about justice reform, the civil responsibility of judges and magistrates must be at the center of the reform. When a journalist makes a mistake he pays, when a politician makes a mistake he pays, when a magistrate makes a mistake in Italy he doesn’t pay because in Italy there is a caste”.
 defends Toti: “Corruption for regular money to parties? Without public funding, you have to get it from somewhere”){kind=link}