Toti, the request for the revocation of home arrest is prepared. Then the choice in regards to the future –

Giovanni Toti defends himself and the “Genoa mannequin” and the day following the eight-hour interrogation earlier than the prosecutors who accuse him of corruption for favoring some entrepreneurs and exchanging votes to be elected, the Ligurian governor doesn’t abdicate however tries to “rehabilitate” oneself with the request for the lifting of home arrest. Greater than two weeks following the measure taken final Might 7, the president of the Liguria Area is attempting to get out of the nook, first by answering for eight hours to the extreme questions of the deputy prosecutor Vittorio Miniati and the prosecutors Luca Monteverde and Federico Manotti, then handing over a 17-page memoir that appears like an ethical and political manifesto, subsequently claiming a public function that many have requested him to surrender. «We are going to quickly current the request to the investigating choose to revoke the precautionary measure, however I’ve not but determined when» explains the defender Stefano Savi.

Being free once more is the primary situation for confrontation with a majority that would result in the resignation that many are clamoring for and which Toti appears to not need. “In my political profession I’ve at all times pursued the general public curiosity” which materializes – he writes in his reminiscence – in an openness to companies which has as its “solely perspective the safety of the collective curiosity”. And it’s on this gentle that the will to modernize the port of Genoa have to be learn, the eye with which he displays “and the place crucial urges the processing of procedures, clearly in full and clear compliance with the legislation and procedures”. An consideration freed from discrimination: everybody was listened to, social gathering financiers and in any other case. That is his all-out protection. «I’ve by no means exceeded the particular competences of the our bodies and places of work in cost, I’ve by no means interfered within the free selections and selections of the topics concerned, I’ve by no means put stress on any topic, I’ve by no means served a specific curiosity to the detriment of the collective one». Transparency additionally claimed from an accounting perspective. «Each euro collected had a political vacation spot: no contribution produced private enrichment or utility for me, for others belonging to my social gathering or for personal third events» are the phrases he provides to the magistrates.

His was a protection of his morals and his politics. In 17 dense pages, through which he says he is able to collaborate for the reality, he underlines how “the one motive for my motion was to assist non-public initiative to make Liguria develop” and the way the intervention within the port was solely to keep away from wars or authorized disputes and block an exercise that brings cash into the coffers of Genoa and the State. He speaks like a governor, of somebody who would not wish to quit, however Toti’s political destiny, like his judicial one, continues to be to be determined.