The current (and deceived) political-institutional situation ended up under the magnifying glass of Guerino D’Ignazio, ordinary of comparative public law and regional law, already principal of political sciences at UniMal, and a profound connoisseur of the Calabrian statute. It is not the first time that in Calabria there is such a situation. In 2014 the then president Giuseppe Scopelliti left the assignment after the sentence at first instance for facts dating back to the time in which he covered the position of mayor of Reggio Calabria. In 2020 the traumatic end of a legislature started for a few months and culminated with the premature death of Jole Santelli, the first woman to lead the Calabria region. Now the story repeats itself with the voluntary resignation of the forzisto Roberto Occhiuto.
Professor D’IGNAZIO, who to guide this phase that separates us from the elections?
“In the transition phase and up to the settlement of the new regional bodies (after the elections) we enter a period of prorogatio, in which the president and the junta must be limited only to the deeds of ordinary administration. Prorogatio is useful for guaranteeing administrative continuity and preventing a blockade of the institution, but the powers of the president and the junta are extremely limited. Article 33, paragraph 6, of the Statute provides that “new elections of the Council and the President of the Council is proceeding in the event of voluntary resignation of the President”, and provides that the outgoing president and the junta remain in office until the proclamation of the new president. Therefore, it’s up to the current joint to drive the transition phase, but with very restricted powers ».
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