The deputy of the 5 Star Movement, Anna Laura Orricoasked in the Chamber for urgent information from the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi «on the anomalies that would have occurred in Calabria on the vote in the 2022 elections», and in particular in the single-member constituency Cosenza 2, as emerged from an investigation by the program Report. The deputy also asked “that the work of the council be stopped to thoroughly investigate what emerged from the investigation”. At the end of her speech, the M5S deputies displayed signs with the words “honesty” and chanted “honesty”, which is why the vice-president of the Chamber Anna Ascani he suspended for a few minutes. At stake, as the M5s explains, is “the case of the Calabrian seat that the center-right wants to assign to Gentile to the detriment of Elisa Scutellà”.
«As reported by Report in the anticipation of a journalistic investigation, in the single-member constituency Cosenza 2 the percentage of blank ballots voted was anomalous, equal to 10%, when normally it is around 3% throughout Italy», explained Orrico then reading a letter sent to her by some voters. «At this point we ask the minister to help us understand and we ask the council» of the elections «and President Fornaro to stop the council’s work, to thoroughly investigate what emerges».
«Is there a system of pseudo-mafia control of the vote in Calabria or not? The vote is a free vote or conditioned by environmental factors attributable to the excessive power of some families”, stated the parliamentarian.
Clash between Iaria (M5s) and Fornaro (Pd), the case of the Calabrian seat
He shouts in the Chamber during a break in the suspension of the Chamber sessionbetween the democratic Fornaro (Pd) and the five-star Antonino Iariaprotagonists of a heated verbal clash. Those who witnessed the argument report that very harsh words were exchanged between the two after the case of the vote in Calabria raised in the Chamber by the MP of the Movement Anna Laura Orrico who had also called into question Fornaro, as president of the council for the elections. At stake, as the M5s explains, is «the case of the Calabrian seat that the center-right wants to assign to Gentile to the detriment of Elisa Scutellà», the elections council, in the evening, is convened «to vote on our request to recheck sample valid ballots”.
No comment from Fornaro on the incident, while Iaria, when asked about it, responds by belittling the extent of the personal conflict: «Both Fornaro and I are fiery…The discussion arose from the fact that I criticized the council’s management of the elections on the topic of voting in Calabria. I took the liberty of saying that, given Report’s investigation, I don’t understand why it should speed up. It bothers us to lose a deputy when there is an unclear situation. I asked him why speed up? He told me to mind my own business and things heated up. The point is not this, but that there is important news, the Report investigation, to take note of”, comments the M5s parliamentarian.