Orlando: “Liguria paralyzed after Toti arrest, let the right say what it wants to do”
Andrea Orlando presses the right and condemns the stalemate in which Liguria has ended up: "Say how you want to continue and if you can". And he underlines: "The signs were all there"
BOLOGNA – “More than two weeks after Toti’s arrest, let the right tell us how to make the administration of Liguria, grappling with a gigantic amount of investments, compatible with the stalemate that has occurred came to create. Since Giorgia Meloni has always waved the flag of development and growth, of attention to businesses, of speed in the implementation of the Pnrr, now it is her turn to explain how all this can be done in a substantially paralyzed region. And this is without prejudice to the political judgment on the matter, i.e. that we find ourselves faced with an expropriation of democracy“. The Democratic Party deputy and former Minister of Justice, Andrea Orlando, says this in an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica.
“In Liguria for years an entrepreneurial, political and bureaucratic dome, born from the intertwining of some economic actors and parts of the public administration – explains the former minister dem – has bypassed every place and institutional process, stripping everyone of their functions the competent bodies – from the Regional Council to the Port Authority – to replace them with meetings on yachts or aperitifs in villas. At the beginning of the legislature I wrote to all Ligurian parliamentarians to report the risk of mafia infiltration in regional politics. highlighted by the Dia report. For some time I had been denouncing a predatory oligarchy in the Region. Even without having today’s elements, the signs were already there: the protagonists of the economic raids and urban planning were always the same; the commissioners were aimed at bypassing the ordinary routes; pieces of information were conditioned by this system”.
To the question from the right that considers the Genoese investigation to be a house of cards, Orlando observes that “if that were the case, it is not clear why Salvini sent inspectors to the Genoa Port Authority. In any case, I do not comment on the investigation , Minister Nordio already does it improperly in my opinion, but it seems to me that at the moment there is no type of arbitrary intervention”. While when asked about early elections in the region as the only possible option, the Dem representative replies “what is the alternative? Let the right say how it wants to continue and if it can.
As for the hypothesis of his candidacy, Orlando underlines that "it is the last of the issues, I have seen that other names are also emerging, but first we need to build a coalition that takes into account the situation and goes even further the national alignments. There is a clean-up job to be done together with all those who consider it a priority to restore the functioning of local democracy. The uncompromised political, social and economic forces must then meet the Toti system is an issue that comes a minute later. In the next few days the Democratic Party will start a discussion with all the social partners and citizens to stimulate this process". "Toti's Liguria anticipates the model of premiership desired by Meloni. Direct election of a leader combined with centralization of powers - explains the Dem representative - emptying of elective assemblies, direct and unfiltered interlocution with lobbies and stakeholders. It is this is the lesson that must be learned at a national level. As for the honeymoon, it will end with the additional maneuver that they will make in the aftermath of the European elections. They already knew from the Def that the money would not be enough, but they postponed it so as not to lose consensus ". Finally, on the possible victory of the sovereignists and the right in the EU, Orlando recalls that "it was the right who opposed a more flexible stability pact: the latest version, which was also accepted by Italy, in many respects penalizes. If they were to win, the attitude towards us would be even more grim. So far neither Orbàn nor the frugal countries have ever shown solidarity with Meloni".
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