opponents “I want to send them home with the elections” –

Just thirty days after the vote, the governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, was placed under house arrest as part of an investigation by the Genoa prosecutor’s office. He said he was calm. “We are very calm”, he declared as he entered the Guardia di Finanza barracks. Toti is accused of corruption. He also took precautionary measures for managers and entrepreneurs, including the CEO of Iren Paolo Emilio Signorini and the entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli. “On Toti: we are guaranteeists. And we are with our political adversaries even if it costs effort. Because everyone is good at being guaranteeists with friends. True guaranteeism is that which always applies the Constitution, even when it is not convenient”, the leader of Italia viva, Matteo Renzi, wrote on X. “I want to send my opponents home with elections, not with investigations. I’ve been saying this since Berlusconi’s time, I haven’t changed my mind. And the United States of Europe team represents the only guaranteeist list”, he added.

“Resigning would be a surrender from my point of view because tomorrow any investigation, any notice of investigation or indictment would lead to the resignation of a mayor or an administrator”, said the deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini, on the sidelines of the Next Mobility Exhibition in the pavilions of the Milan Fair in Rho. “I am not in a position to suggest anything to Giovanni, who I consider to be an excellent administrator – underlined Salvini -. In Italy and in all civilized countries someone is guilty if convicted in three levels of judgement. An investigation is not enough, I invite him to demonstrate that he has worked correctly and I hope that the judges give him speed the opportunity to do so.”