These are very hot hours for the Messina electoral campaign. While the representatives of South calls North at Palazzo Zanca are depositing the documents on the 15 lists for the city council and those for the constituencies, the centre-right candidate Marcello Scurria returns to contest the ongoing operations, and in particular the failure to collect signatures by South calls North.
“Yesterday – says Scurria in the press conference – we learned that the regional department has asked the legislative and legal office of the Region for a further opinion and that the latter, the highest body that deals with the legal issues of the Region, has sent its opinion. It seems that this opinion contradicts the manager who a month ago had said that it was possible to present an unlimited number of lists without signatures and explored the issue of the confusion of the lists. Or at least it we deduce, given that it has not yet been transmitted. I don’t point the finger at anyone, if there are rules they must be respected, without shortcuts. I would ask De Luca: can the signatures be collected now, why weren’t they collected before? And I reply: if asking for compliance with the law means threatening, let’s reject this unworthy way of conducting an electoral campaign”.
And in the afternoon Scurria comes down hard: “Despite a formal request to the Prefect of Messina, the opinion of the legislative and legal office of the Sicilian Region regarding the presentation without signatures of the lists in support of the candidate Federico Basile has still not been transmitted or acquired. The general manager who asked for the opinion maintains that the document would not be visible. All this is unacceptable and could taint the electoral process. I have given a mandate to a lawyer to ask the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Palermo to immediately seize the At the same time I urged the Prefect of Messina to request and obtain the opinion.