«Occhiuto played in advance thinking he had a great advantage, which is a gesture of arrogance in the face of a judicial investigation. Instead of providing all the elements and preparing for the utmost collaboration, he determined a crisis of the outgoing junta, has resigned and has now he is asking for the vote of the citizens. He would like a plebiscite to then be able to tell the magistrates that their action does not count, even if they are an autonomous and independent power, and what matters is the vote of citizens. And an intrinsically anti -democratic, illiberal, which creates a precedent scheme ». The president of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte said this, today in Locri to visit the hospital together with the candidate of the progressive field to the presidency of the Calabria Region Pasquale Tridico.
“Imagine – he added – all the mayors, all the presidents of the Region, who have a public assignment, who resign, create a crisis and ask citizens, in the face of a judicial investigation, you decide if I am legitimized or not to continue. What does it have to do with it. This is not the democratic scheme of a healthy democracy in which there is respect for autonomous power independent of the judiciary “.
In the judgment of Conte, Occhiuto also “made some calculation badly. He thought he was unprepared – he said – he thought he would find coalition forces that were quietly quarreled. Instead these forces have found a very large deployment that involves parties, political, social and cultural movements. And we all found a tridic and the movement is proud of it because it has always considered it a great resource available not only of the movement but also of others. So Tridico is available to interpret this project which, in consent, in the enthusiasm that day after day rises to Calabrian citizens, is evidently offering an important signal that we have seen right “.
“Pasquale Tridico – concluded Conte – can give a change to Calabria, can interpret the need for change, to return dignity to the region and to the citizens who live there even if it is one of the poorest in Europe and always marginalized, also by national politics”.