Among the candidates in Puglia investigated and accused, transformers and political dinosaurs: almost 1000 are running for a seat in the Region

There he isaccused in the Environment Cleared process that is shedding light on contamination caused byIlva of Taranto, the former city councilor who apologized for the financial disasters of your board, a squad of investigated me condemned, the daughter-in-law of former minister An Adriana Poli Bortone running to support Michele Emiliano, he Vendoliano who found himself a supporter of Raffaele Fitto, defeated in 2005 by the founder of Sel. There i “son of” and also the men who became famous for their role in COVID-19 me Xylella, now one deployed in support of the governor and the other against, political dinosaurs and traitors. Puglia’s rosters of aspiring regional councilors are a soup of old and new, with some weather vanes following the wind of victory. A factor that mainly unites the lists in support of Raffaele Dense, Michele Emiliano and Renziano Ivan Scalfarotto, three of the 9 contenders for the chair along with the pentastellata Antonella Laricchia, renowned governor.

From left to right, investigations and seizures – A mixed army almost a thousand people, in which there is a good group of candidates involved in legal proceedings, excellent and no. Among the ranks of Emiliano, for example, the name of Mauro vizzino that shortly after the 2015 regional election with the list Emiliano Mayor de Puglia was accused of embezzlement and it still is under process: for the Brindisi prosecutor’s office, Vizzino, an ASL employee who worked in the Cup, would have pocketed money from fake refunds between 2009 and 2012. Five years later, however, it applies again. To the motto “Dense President” former Forza Italia senator also joined Antonio Azzollini what was last january condemned to 1 year and 3 months (sentence suspended) for the accident of House of Divine Providence of Bisceglie. A sentence that came a month after theabsolution of the prosecution for fraud in research for the construction of Molfetta harbor. Equally noisy was the candidacy in the ranks of the center-right of Napoleon Wax, Foggia son of the former UDC parliamentarian Angelo: father and son, were arrested – measure subsequently revoked – in October 2019 for charges of attempted extortion in a line of an investigation of the magistrates of Foggia Antonio Laronga me Marco Gambardella which also involves the former regional councilor for Welfare, Salvatore ruggeri, and the outgoing governor Emiliano.

“Children of” and prescribed – And then there are the Taranto Mario Cito, son of the former mayor and parliamentarian Giancarlo, candidate for Udc-New Psi, e Giovanni ungaro running with him League of Matteo salvini: the two were involved in an investigation that led to the seizure of money for several Ionian councilors who, together with compliant companies, would have simulated the existence of a Work contract or would have made his own ascent salaries to access the reimbursements that the law recognizes to employees who are elected in the city assembly. They were kidnapped from the Northern League 37 thousand euro, in Cito instead they were kidnapped 19 thousand euros. Finally, the name of Giuseppe Margheriti, arrested in July 2017 for an alleged bribery of 110 thousand euro: last November onfile by prescription.

The former director forced to resign – Even among the ranks of Michele Emiliano, there is no shortage of faces known to the news. Rather. There is Michele Mazzarano, l ‘former councilor of the board of Emiliano forced to resignation after the reveal of Bare the news inhiring of one of the two sons of an entrepreneur from Taranto in exchange for support in the 2015 round: the Taranto prosecutor accused him of electoral corruption, a circumstance that did not prevent Democratic party to reapply it. In addition, in the lists of the Pd de Apulia appears the name of Anita Maurodinoia, former vice president of the Provincial Council of Bari and outgoing regional councilor from whom he hangs request of accusation: Maurodinoia, her husband Alessandro cataldo and other defendants, according to the Bari prosecutor, would have pocketed bundles between 2006 and 2014 by some entrepreneurs: foods, home maintenance and also money In return obtaining.

And also the man accused of having favored the Riva – The third man in Nicola Zingaretti’s group is Filippo Caracciolo involved in an investigation to auction interruption and forced to resign in 2018 from the position of Regional Minister for the Environment: the Bari prosecutor He entered him in the register of suspects along with eight other people and the various charges are of concurrence in the fraudulent bidding, corruption me false. And to close the poker dem have chosen again Donato Pentassuglia, Tarantino involved in the maxi-trial Exhausted environment please helping Girolamo Archinà, the former very powerful manager of institutional relations Ilva accused of criminal association directed at environmental disaster, omission of precautions in the workplace and food poisoning as well as corruption in judicial acts.

The former vendoliano now fittiano and the renzian-leaguer – They are not involved in legal proceedings but have argued a lot about the many candidates they have. jacket changed in search of a place in the sun. Sometimes embarrassing jumps, like that of Angela Carluccio, former mayor of Brindisi at the time of the election he deployed against Emiliano to give “Toast to Brindisi” and today, instead, his supporter in the second most important seat race in Puglia. Or the unique elections of 4 candidates from Taranto. Two from the center-right suddenly became followers of Matteo renzi: is about Antonella Scialpi, that gives Go Italy has gone through Italy Long Live, e Angelo Di Lena became Renzi after being a militant of the League. On the other side is the hematologist Patrizio mazza, elected in 2010 by the majority of Nichi Vendola and now a sympathizer Fitto, and former Minister of Agriculture of Emiliano, Leo Di Gioia. Still Luigi morgante that in the Region is a candidate for Forza Italia, but in his municipality, a Manduria, has formed a series of civic lists hinder the election of the center-right candidate for mayor Lorenzo Bullo. And finally Tarantino is the former magistrate Giuseppe Tommasino: the Fittian candidate was subjected to a disciplinary procedure of Csm when he was on duty for his statements against his colleague Patrizia Todisco, the investigating judge who seized the Ilva hot zone for harmful emissions from the factory.

New stars and old dinosaurs – Among the candidates there are also other protagonists of pitched battles for Puglia, people of science who went beyond the criticism that rained down from the opposite side for the decision to run. From the epidemiologist Pier luigi lopalco, passed from the head of the anti-Covid working group a supporter of Emiliano, until Giuseppe Silletti, extraordinary commissioner of the Xylella that Fitto supports. And if all this were not enough there is also “Dinosaurs” of national and Apulian politics, recounted in the race for Fitto: how Euprepio Curto, former MP with past in A and UDC, defeated in provincial elections of Brindisi as a candidate for the presidency and today accepted in the Forza Italia lists. And always between berluscones check the name of Umberto Ingrosso: ex municipal councilor in Taranto in the center-right board that led the municipality to financial difficulties, published in 2006 an intervention in the local press in which he asked sorry to the city and invited his fellow administrators to assume responsibility for failure, economic and political. After 14 years he returns to the scene with an emblematic motto: “The value of consistency”. The one who says, really, Adriana Poli Bortone, out of the electoral race and proud supporter of the race for governor of Pierfrancesco bruni. A double dose for the iron lady of the southern right: he has announced that Raffaele Fitto, a disowned dolphin, nor his daughter-in-law will not vote Chiara montefrancesco. He appreciates it, of course, but his son’s wife has decided to run with Emiliano. And on the left, the former mayor of Lecce and agriculture minister, will never move.