Alessandro Piana, and the councilors Giacomo Giampedrone and Marco Scajola, on Friday it will be the turn of the three regional leaders of the center-right coalition that has supported him since 2015. They are the deputy minister and secretary of the Liguria League Edoardo Rixi, the deputy and Ligurian coordinator of Fratelli d’Italia Matteo Rosso, and the regional coordinator of Forza Italia Carlo Bagnasco. The round of meetings with Maurizio Lupi and Pino Bicchielli, respectively leader and deputy of Noi Moderati, will end next Monday. If the meeting of the Toti council took place in the morning, that of the regional leaders will be held in the afternoon instead, around 4.00-5.00 pm and as happened with the first, it will last three hours. The Guardia di Finanza will be out keeping watch just like on Monday.
Friday will be the decisive summit in all likelihood to define the political line to be pursued. The council’s line was clearly outlined on Monday 24 June, during the press conference called in Luni, where the regent president Piana and the councilors Scajola and Giampedrone once again reiterated their desire to move forward with Piana in command until Toti’s return , when he will obtain the revocation of his house arrest, which could happen in July with the ruling of the Review Court. The hearing for the appeal to the Review Court presented by the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti will in fact be on 8 July and the decision will be made within 20 days of the filing of the documents by the Prosecutor’s Office and, therefore, by 15 July. But the revocation could be postponed to August and in the worst case scenario to September/October with the Court of Cassation. Lawyer Savi said he was confident in this regard, since all the witnesses have been heard and there is no danger of the crime being repeated or evidence being contaminated. There was no mention of resignation during the first summit at Toti, from what emerged from the interesting direct reports, the desire is to reach the end of the mandate, i.e. in 2025.
In these hours the regional leaders will discuss, including with the government in view of the meeting on Friday. But given recent statements and making political considerations, it is likely that regional leaders support the same line expressed by the Toti council. The content of the meeting will probably be transmitted via a joint note signed by the three leaders, unlike what happened on Monday with the organized press point. In fact, it seems that there is no desire to make public statements.
