There are also two candidates from the Vibonese area in the next municipal elections on 23 and 24 November among those who have been declared “unpresentable” by the parliamentary anti-mafia commission. The list, announced by president Chiara Colosimo, includes eight names for the regional consultations and another eight for the administrative ones which will affect the municipalities of Caivano, Monteforte Irpino, Acquaro and Capistrano. In the Vibonese area, two candidates from the Municipality of Capistrano ended up under the lens of the anti-mafia parliamentary commission, which returns to the vote after its dissolution due to mafia infiltration confirmed by both the TAR and the Council of State. The candidates for the parliamentary commission to be considered “unpresentable” are the aspiring mayor Marco Martino, former mayor of the administration dissolved due to mafia infiltration, and Vito Pirruccio, former councilor and deputy mayor with the Martino council and now running for the city council.
According to the checks of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, both candidacies are in open violation of the self-regulation code that the Commission has adopted. Furthermore, a request for Marco Martino to be ineligible for candidacy is pending before the Court of Vibo Valentia, made by the Ministry of the Interior on the basis of anti-mafia legislation. The Council of State, in rejecting Marco Martino’s appeal and confirming the dissolution of the elective bodies of the body due to mafia infiltration, had underlined that in Capistrano there was a «voluntary cooperation of the administrators with the aims of the criminal organization», while «the mafia influence on the local administration was confirmed».