Genoa, 4 June. (askanews) – “With a political myopia with rare precedents, today, with this motion of no confidence, the opposition is attempting a political push that not only will not succeed in numbers, but confirms, if ever there was any need, all their inadequacy to lead this region.” This was stated by the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, who has been under house arrest for almost a month on charges of corruption and forgery, in the letter to the regional council read today by the group leader of the Toti List Alessandro Bozzano at the beginning of the session in which the motion of no confidence presented by the opposition against him. “After a decade of constant political and electoral defeats – underlines Toti – the ruling class of the left itself, which was able to disappoint the citizens more than any other, in a Region where its traditions, today sees, thanks to an investigation by the judiciary, the possibility of recovering some of the lost ground.
It does so by exploiting the echo of an investigation which at the moment is just that, without indictments and much less without convictions. In fact, we won’t say a word about this, not even what I could say, imitating the opposition, about the long shadows that concern the Democratic Party. A motion presented in a hurry, so as not to let everything collapse.” According to the governor, currently suspended, “here lies the first symptom of political weakness. Because in your motion – says the letter – there is nothing political, in fact, there is the opposite. There is a policy that, instead of defending its own prerogatives, autonomous and parallel to those of the other powers of the State, turns them into a megaphone or spare wheel, in the hope of collecting some crumbs. What a disappointment for the heirs of a tradition that had made the centrality of politics its guiding star, to find themselves today stammering and repeating what they read in the newspapers about an investigation yet to be verified. We would have expected, on your part too, a proud desire to carry forward a popular mandate, which you too have received in order to sit here.” “Unfortunately, the desire to discredit your role and that of the Council of which you are part of, called by you to a preliminary debate which anticipates the same preliminary findings. You have decided to continue on the path of a politics with a small, subaltern ‘p’, in order to take advantage of this presumed moment of weakness, trying to achieve an objective that you do not consider achievable with your abilities and your credibility”.
