“He used hyperbole on Decaro” –

The Bari case is inflaming Italian politics. Since the governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, during the demonstration in support of the mayor Antonio Decaro, took the microphone and said that he had taken the current mayor of the Apulian capital to the house of the boss’s sister and that he had “entrusted” him to him , trouble has broken out in the Pd house. Now also the investigation for vote swapping, which has overwhelmed the city’s regional council and which has damaged an already weak alliance. The Democratic Party accused the M5s leader of “disloyalty”. Tough Elly Schlein: “We don’t tolerate bought votes.” And he added: “The road to unity broken by others.” Giuseppe Conte replied: “For us, legality is not a negotiable value.”

An avalanche that overwhelms the wide field from Bari. Emiliano himself broke the silence: “I have always been the elephant in the room of the Democratic Party! The party has never metabolised me, I have always been a thorn in the side of many secretaries”, he told Corriere della Sera. What happened with Decaro following the anecdote recited? “We have a twenty-year bond that has been strengthened: they attack us together. In reality I had used hyperbole at a rally: the prosecutor Emiliano, who had arrested the mafiosi, goes in his capacity as mayor to explain the ZTL to the citizens of Bari Vecchia and brings his councilor with him,” he said. Then the governor of Puglia admitted that, if he might go back, he would change his ways: “Okay, with hindsight I would use other words, then following so many years everyone can remember it differently”, he concluded.