“We cannot participate in a farce regional congress where the rules were contracted in Rome. The rules have jumped, in the silence of the secretary Schlein and without the rules there is no more party ». The group leader of the Democratic Party at the Ars said it, Michele Catanzarocrystallizing the situation of a party that is increasingly torn and explosive and that is ready to explode with the congress that will elect the new secretary. And the word “fraud” by the regional deputation group comes out. The Nazarene is ready to confirm the outgoing Anthony Barbagallobut the dissidents of the parliamentary group of the Sicilian Regional Assembly are not there and are ready to desert the congress.
«We are not deserters – adds Catanzaro – but we do not intend to endorse a farce congress. We have the signatures and a ready candidate, we are ready for Battalia, but we need to restore legality conditions ». A situation that continues at least from January 27 when the party assembly rejected the indication of open primaries, “even with the vote of people who are deceased or in actually connected or who were not entitled to vote”. According to what was explained that day, 206 connected, of which only 88 voted were entitled, 65 were connected online not components of the assembly, but which largely voted, 52 connected with false or untriving profiles, “including” Merlo “or” Gattonero “”. “All this was done, therefore, in an unfinted context and not transparency on respect for the rules, we had asked to ascertain those votes, but it was not done”, reiterates Catanzaro, alongside most of the regional parliamentary group, to the Eurodedic Giuseppe Lupo and various managers. That vote, says Antonio Rubino, “canceled the statute of the Democratic Party without there having been given answers on the transparency of the vote: we will present an appeal to request the cancellation of the documents from 27 May to today, including the notice of the congress. We support many battles by Elly Schlein, but we cannot believe his face is those of Barabagallo in Sicily ». «On January 27 – the Catanzaro resumes – the end of the rules of a party was consumed. We asked for the truthfulness of those data, we also asked when the party sent a comissial for the congress. We want a certification of the regularity of the congress, otherwise we do not participate. We are not deserters, we made unit a cornerstone, but an important tear has been made.
The regional parliamentarian Fabio Venezia goes hard: “We will not participate in a regional congress in the light of forcing and fraud: all this will not be able to allow us to participate”. The Democratic Party “is not a Masonic lodge”, says the former anti -mafia mayor of Troina (Enna), “Barbagallo has a duty to take the list of those who voted online on January 27 and publish it by tonight on the regional website of the Democratic Party. If Barbagallo will do it tomorrow morning I will present my candidacy to celebrate a real congress that we wanted to open, able to speak to the company, in the face of those who aim for a congress only to confirm a secretary responsible for an acclaimed bankruptcy “.
“At the assembly people voted for people who said they were not connected online, others who are even deceased … We were denied the possibility of a unitary candidate – said the MEP Lupo – and now we still relaunch the open primaries. They publish the lists of voters now tonight. It is a battle that is of many. If you do not take any step in this direction, we can only reiterate that we will not participate in a congress that at the moment will be defeated, we have lost the policies, the regional ones, overflowing the European ones and we have risked disappearing to the provincials … but what should happen to replace a regional secretary? We let the subscribers find a way out with the primaries open. We are with Schlein and Bonaccini, but we are convinced that the unit must and can be found with the voters of the Democratic Party, rather than with a leading group of the Democratic Party. We hope that the national secretary will intervene ».
A chapter of the clash between the secretary and the parliamentary group is the threat advanced by the secretary Barbagallo to report the deputies for the things “Mancia rules” contained in the last financial one: “Barbagallo should at least self -confer – I thundered Venice – I am in the budget commission and he brought me an intervention of 100 thousand euros for a church of his Pedara who was approved … and this is perhaps the only positive result of his. Secretariat ». “An arrogant and stupid setting that hurts the whole party,” concludes Catanzaro. The tension remains very high in the home of the Democratic Party.