GENOA – A few hours after the news arrived from the prosecutor’s office, with the request to revoke the house arrest for the president (suspended) Giovanni Toti, rejected by the investigating judge Paola Faggioni, political reactions continue. The outcome had already been announced after the negative opinion of prosecutors Monteverde and Manotti. The rejection order stated that the decision taken arises from the risk of repetition of the crime and pollution of evidence. On the first risk, “unlike what the defense claims, the fact that the European electoral competitions of 8 and 9 June 2024 have now taken place does not mean that the risk of recurrence of similar criminal conduct has disappeared”. Speaking from Rome were the vice-president of the Chamber Giorgio Mulè and the senator of the Five Star Movement Luca Pirondini. For the Forza Italia exponent, President Giovanni Toti “must decide independently whether he is in a position to govern and administer Liguria: if he is completely convinced that he is doing the good of the Ligurians, if he thinks that the works can go ahead, then he should not resign “. On the contrary – he continues Giorgio Mulè – “if he thinks that his remaining in a state of restriction can stop the administrative action of Liguria, he will draw the conclusions himself. But beware of letting the judiciary tell us what needs to be done“.
Mov5s senator Luca Pirondini, who associates himself with the minority force, is harsh and has a completely opposite opinion in Liguria and asks for the resignation of Giovanni Toti. “For six weeks, Liguria has been experiencing a nightmare, a paradox, an anomaly: a regional president arrested, under house arrest, who does not resign. An affair, the one that led to Toti’s arrest, which touches on issues such as alleged corruption , the alleged political-mafia exchange vote and extends to wiretaps from which it would appear that false data on Covid infections during the pandemic may have been communicated by the Liguria Region – he explains Luca Pirondini through your Facebook profile -. An affair for which the regional exponents of the centre-right should be ashamed and for which they should have already resigned, demonstrating a minimum sense of decency and respect for the institutions. But no, they celebrate the fact that they alone saved themselves from the minorities’ motion of no confidence, they attack the magistrates, they attack the minority and they receive orders from a president under house arrest.”
Then there is a direct attack, almost aimed at Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, guilty of not imposing herself on the resignation of President Toti. In all this, Giorgia intervenes only to say ‘Toti decides’ demonstrating that discipline and honor are just two words with which to make fun of those who delude themselves that this is the right and not a business committee. Toti, resign. Regional councilors involved in the investigations, resign – continues Pirondini -. Giorgia, pretend to be a prime minister with a modicum of institutional sense and make them resign. Do it by doing imitations, making small voices, making faces or covering your face with your jacket, but do it. Open up. Knock once. Also because otherwise we suspect that you are not free to do so. Resign, free our land from your institutional smallness, your arrogance and your inability. Because now we need seriousness to solve the problems you have created. Step aside. Toti resign.” In short, polar opposite opinions, waiting to understand the next moves of Toti’s lawyer Stefano Savi and the timing of that meeting, only supported, of the suspended president with his majority.
