«I do not distribute advance certificates of guilt to anyone, much less to a political movement, and, to be clear, I have not repeatedly denounced the risk of polluting the vote because I am in possession of confidential information (and covered by professional secrecy). The controversies over the votes bought in Triggiano were public and some public trials have been underway for some time. The mayor of Bari himself declared publicly that he had denounced those who offered to buy votes and that he was not surprised by the arrests.” Michele Laforgia doesn’t want to pass for Bari’s Gisella Cardia. Unlike the fake seer from Trevignano, the mayoral candidate of the 5 Star Movement hasn’t said anything transcendental. Because in Bari, under scrutiny for clan infiltration, it is now discovered that even the stones knew regarding the buying and selling of votes, which guaranteed the Democratic Party to erect the fort in the city and also in the Region. Of course, Laforgia had known it before the others.
On a day in February 2021, when Armando Defrancesco, the godson of the Sandro Cataldo-Anita Maurodinoia couple, showed up at his law firm, ready to “serve the head on the silver platter” of the duo accused of having transformed the South list to center in a trading centre. Laforgia was supposed to make an appointment with the magistrate for Defrancesco, but that meeting never materialized. And rightly, by virtue of professional secrecy, Laforgia kept the secret. Which today turns out to be Pulcinella’s secret. Reason why the Vendolian, bound by his official duty, had been raising alarms for some time which, in light of Giuseppe Conte’s choice to screw up the primaries, have become mystical omens. Strengthened by his history as a well-known lawyer and son of a former mayor of Bari, following the unsuccessful attempt to enter Parliament with Leu in 2018, he was finally seduced by Conte. The former prime minister is so attached to the territory that he never won in Bari. And he wouldn’t have won this time either, in fact he wouldn’t even have passed the primaries with the Democratic Party. Laforgia knew it, either for professional secrecy or for gossip, but the result is that the lawyer sponsored by Nichi Vendola had got in the way of the primaries as early as December 2023, when he had clearly said: «I am not available for the primaries. I think that democracy is a job and I want to remove from this city the mortgage that the bearers and buyers of votes have.” From there a crescendo.
In the followingmath of the 130 arrests in February for political-mafia exchange votes, Laforgia reiterated «that he said from the beginning, and not just me, that primaries are not the best method for selecting the ruling class» and that « we had to be careful regarding the do-it-yourself vote, which is the primary vote, because everyone knows that in Bari there is a market phenomenon of votes and criminal infiltration.” Thus for the challenge once morest the Democratic Party candidate, Vito Leccese, the 5 Star Movement had demanded certain rules, such as the register of voters which, among other things, is in the Dem statute. There was nothing to be done, Elly Schlein’s party had not given in, reaching the compromise of abandoning the classic gazebos to have voters vote in hotels, monitored by cameras. Sandro Cataldo was arrested on Thursday, because according to the investigating judge he was preparing for the sale, and then everything fell apart, following the latest Leccese-Laforgia clash. Because in the end, even if Schlein brands the choice as incomprehensible, no one here is stupid.
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2024-04-09 11:00:35
