Genoa – Sparks in the Regional Council in Liguria between the council and the opposition who asked to report in the chamber the contents of yesterday’s meeting between the interim president Alessandro Piana and two councilors at the home of Giovanni Toti, under house arrest. Discussions also over the late arrival of President Piana: according to the opposition he lingered outside the chamber to give interviews, according to the majority he was instead delayed due to the traffic jam in Genoa due to a demonstration in port against the war in Palestine.
Alessandro Piana was asked to report, today or in the next session, in order to start a discussion in the chamber, and the interim president said that “the statements are the same as those made yesterday in the press conference, there are no other communications” .
“In the meeting – said Piana – there was no talk of administrative issues or the investigation but only of our political action, of the timetable that led us to govern”. And turning to the leader of the Democratic Party Garibaldi he added: “It would be as if I asked you for your political strategy in view of the next regional elections, it is inappropriate I would say. We should also believe in it. It was exquisitely a political meeting.”
The advisor of Linea Condivisa, Giovanni Pastorinohe replied: “So someone is telling a lie. According to the newspapers and according to what emerged from the press conference yesterday you instead spoke about three important issues for the region: the deficit, the regasification terminal and the question of appointments. So either there are liars or something isn’t working.”
The opposition, through Garibaldi of the Democratic Party and Pastorino of Linea Condivisa, has been asking for weeks for the governor to take a step back because, in their opinion, the governor’s judicial situation, in fact, represents an obstacle not only for the administrative management of the territory but for the very development of the Region.
“The statements of some regional councilors show a lack of clarity, at a time when collaboration between the parties would be desirable to give continuity to the growth of Liguria”.
Thus, in a note, the acting president of the Liguria Region, Alessandro Piana, responding to the attacks of the leader of the Democratic Party, Luca Garibaldi. “The minority in the regional council never misses an opportunity to foment unfounded controversies, bringing political arguments into the chamber that should be addressed in many other places – continues Piana – rather than fulfilling the functions for which they were elected by the Ligurian citizens, some members of the opposition prefer in fact generate chaos with the sole result of slowing down the work of the council”. For the interim governor, these are “attitudes that demonstrate little respect for the institutions, taking into account that on our part there has always been maximum openness to dialogue”.
The regional coordinator of the Toti List also responds to the controversy Ilaria Cavo and the group leader in the region Alessandro Bozzano: “Davide Natale complains that Toti’s failure to resign would hold Liguria hostage. We have the impression that they rather hold Natale and the Democratic Party hostage, who continue to lose sleep in the vain illusion of winning something by exploiting the improper weapons of the investigation. Today Luca Garibaldi also confirms this obsession which gives them no respite. We also understand the fact that the comrades choose to deal with the facts of the centre-right majority, given that their field is as wide as the distance between each of the ideas. expressed by each member – he can’t even decide whether to continue following Sansa and her desire to place himself with the national leaders, or look for a better alternative to a self-candidate like Orlando who doesn’t even like his own. Sorry though, trying to learn something, they study badly and despite the many repetitions they do not understand, for example, that at the meeting with Toti, the regent president Alessandro Piana represented the entire council, including the Fratelli d’Italia component, and that the political summit with the allies is foreseen for Friday and members of the Toti List will not participate. The idea that even this budget adjustment could be approved without putting the Ligurians’ hands in their pockets evidently drives Natale, Garibaldi and his companions crazy. The dem secretary is so confused that he doesn’t realize that he is the first to argue that immediate elections would harm Liguria. In fact, he claims that if he had to wait for the Review Court or the Supreme Court, Liguria would risk getting bogged down. Perhaps he didn’t realize that, in the worst case scenario, the supreme court would express its final judgment on the revocation of Toti’s house arrest between September and October. The elections that he dreams of would come later, would be preceded by an electoral campaign rather than by constant administrative action which instead continues, and would then see a phase of stalemate linked to the formation of the junta. We thank Natale for having explained what the last thing the Ligurians really need is.”
Meanwhile, the vice president of the Chamber expressed his opinion on Toti’s judicial situation and the future of the majority during the Start program on Skytg24 Giorgio Mulè: “There will be a review court that will be called upon to verify (whether the conditions that do not allow the attenuation or revocation of the current precautionary measure of house arrest still exist, ed.). In light of that decision, Giovanni will have all the cards on the table to decide whether the good of Liguria lies in his continued role or whether he must take a step back.”
