Mastella defends himself: “I don’t even have a driver’s license!”. Thus we understand that for a whole life, at least since 1976, which marks his entry into Parliament, there is a driver who chauffeurs him. The point, however, is another: it turns out that in less than five years on the Benevento-Rome route his blue car has collected well 150 lotsall promptly canceled by the prefect. Some for overcoming the speed limitsothers for having a hole in the Ztl and preferentials as if it were an Amst bus, not in the car with the emblem of the municipality or his private Audi. The Hyenas rightly raise a fuss about the “case”. He blows on it, accusing his rival at Palazzo Mosti of whipping the cream and pointing out that he pays for the petrol for travel, at least that. The controversy will end in court, where Ceppaloni’s politician has already brought – as a result of a lawsuit – the former official Gabriele Corona, became a municipal councilor, again for the history of the car. Not so the minutes, taken in bursts and immediately trashed after as many appeals-photocopy. All motivated by Mastella in this way: institutional commitments, service and safety needs. The controversy will go on for days but the epilogue seems obvious due to illustrious precedents who make the “Mastella case” only the last of many.
In this newspaper we have told them several times. Even more colorful, but just the same disarmanti for the common citizen who pays the fines and without having an institutional role or public salaries which should be aggravating and instead are the indemnity for not paying. The “vice”, if it can be called that, boasts illustrious precedents. Going back there is a Salvini, future Minister of the Interior, who whizzes at 87 km to go to via Bellerio along the Enrico Fermi highway, where the limit is 70 and is the nightmare of all common motorists, who disciplinedly respect it. Not so the politician who takes pen and paper and gets the report canceled by setting the “institutional role“And the” security risk “. And never mind if at the time the Northern League was only the leading candidate for the Milan municipal elections. Before him there had been ministers and politicians like Michela Vittoria Brambilla, Mariastella Gelminithe then deputy of the PDL Maurizio Bernardo and even the former father of the points driving license Pietro Lunardi. In some cases the cancellation is an extra-large format, in the sense that in addition to the sanction to the poor politician it may happen that the local police seize the vehicle no parking, almost as if they were normal people. Then those who really are have to pay the deposit etc they don’t.
From the appeals on the honorable headed paper we discover the real costs, for taxpayers, of the “blue cars”. In the case of the Brambilla, for example, it turned out that his – a Mercedes with a driver – was also expensive 500 euros per day, which would be 182 thousand euros in one year. All the fault of a burnt traffic light in Milan. The redhead that passes with the red attached to the appeal the service contract with the Prefecture of Lecco, indicating that the car had remained at his disposal for 19 ore consecutivethe kilometers traveled had been 210 more than agreed and upon delivery the bill was precisely 530 euros for a single day.
And what about the former senator Antonio Paravita? He got a fine from 264 euro for having burned the limit on the Ghisallo flyover, another nightmare for Milanese motorists who go to work at 50 per hour, while ours was speeding at 111 with his Land Rover. But they pay, he doesn’t. The nice thing, so to speak, is that he was no longer a senator for a while but took the paper and pen of the Senate that he had left and (without specifying that the office had ceased) wrote to the Prefect asking for the cancellation of the sanction and the prompt return of points. In addition to the usual things (“institutional role” …) he added colic things: just at that hour, at that point, he had had an urgency, let’s say, that pushed him to reach his destination (that is, his daughter’s house).
Here, all this to say that the vice is ancient. That Mastella, if only for the record number of fines canceled, deserves by right to enter the caste that runs go unpunished towards the hostility of any man. Also because, it is worth remembering, the canceled sanctions are less money for the municipalities, from Benevento (which last year closed its budget in the red of 30 million) to Milan, which is missing. 200 to close the exercise. The fines of politicians are not enough to pay them off, it would be populist to support him, but paying them would be a comfort to those who have no choice.
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