There are not only announced cases related to Alessandro Giulifirst the one on the now former chief of staff of Minister Spano, to raise the anticipation for the broadcast of the first episode of Reportthis Sunday evening on Rai Tre. In fact, in the episode schedule there will also be a long chapter dedicated to the Liguria case and the investigation that overwhelmed the Toti system, which also and above all due to the placement in the Rai schedule – exactly between the two days of voting for the Regionals, Sunday and Monday, with the polls open – has been shaking the Ligurian political scene for some time. Certainly on the right, where the accusations of “political support” have already come from the broadcast of Siegfried Ranucci. Less so on the left, where it is stated that the involvement of some local PD leaders in the service is “not a source of concern”.
«We will also talk about the Genoa system, – Ranucci himself announced in recent days – we will show the undergrowth which has been little talked about and which in my opinion is the most important part of what has emerged, that is, the presence of some nearby characters to the mafia clans who supported an entire electoral system, therefore who are called ad hoc to bring votes”. A spotlight on the methods used on the right, between the 2020 regional elections and the 2022 administrative elections, to gain consensus.
The signature of the piece, the journalist Luca Chiancain recent months he has searched for and mostly met all the protagonists of the investigation that shook the Region. From the “great corruptor” of the system according to the prosecutor’s office, Aldo Spinelli, to the trade unionist Venanzio Maurici. From Toti, who also kept the Report crew out of the evening of the great return to the scene, the presentation of his book, to the Testa brothers, Sicilians originally from Riesi, responsible for collecting the votes of the Riesi community of Genoa to favor the councilors of the list of the former president, investigated for aggravated vote swapping for having facilitated the mafia.
From the Genoa city councilor on the Toti for Bucci list, Umberto Lo Grasso, who according to prosecutors warned the Testa brothers not to speak on the phone because they were intercepted by the prosecutor’s office, to Stefano Anzalone, very close to the Testas and now a candidate on Marco Bucci’s list. Or Domenico Cianci, regional councilor of the Toti List, helped to conquer the regional council, according to investigators, by Carmelo Griffo, suspected of belonging to the ‘ndrangheta gang of “Tratraculo” of Petronà in the province of Catanzaro.
“It seems out of place to me, let them do as they want but I believe that Report’s operation is a political flanking operation, precisely on their part who profess to be champions of impartial journalism”, Toti himself has made his opinion known in recent days. “They act as the armed wing of the left, which has not been capable of fighting us for a long time,” adds the coalition that nominated Marco Bucci. The coordinator of Forza Italia in Liguria, Carlo Bagnasco, speaks of an «unacceptable violation of electoral silence».
The stomach aches among the centre-right, already last week, had led the Rai top management to ask the legal office for an opinion to avoid any possible risk of blocking the broadcast of the service on the Liguria case on the evening of the vote. «Electoral silence only applies to parties, not to journalists», however, the broadcast is defended, confirming that there will be no basis for the stop.
In reality, given the accusations coming from the right, the Report service will also deal with the centre-left. To be told, the professional ties of some managers or former dem managers with the entrepreneur Mauro Vianello, president of Ente Bacini who is also investigated in the investigation into Toti on charges of having bribed the former president of the port authority Signorini. And above all the relationship between Spinelli and the former Ligurian governor of the Democratic Party, Claudio Burlando.
In reality, well-known passages that make themselves understood from the left should not cause much agitation in the run-up to the vote. The answer on the topic, in the report, somehow comes from Orlando himself: “No embarrassment, but after this affair the Democratic Party must also change some practices which in my opinion in another context could also have been accepted and tolerated but which today have become dangerous ”. “I, however – cuts the case in the bud – have never frequented Spinelli, I have never met Vianello, nor have I ever taken money from terminal operators or gone on yachts”.
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