No one guarantees that it will end like the summer of last year when Roberto Occhiuto, recipient of a notice of investigation on charges of corruption, managed to resign, run again and be re-elected in the space of two months to acquire the popular legitimacy “weakened” by the investigation by the Catanzaro Prosecutor’s Office. On the other hand, it is the governor himself who relaunches the challenge to those who call him to account after the Rome Prosecutor’s Office requested that he be sent to trial as part of an investigation into an alleged scam linked to reimbursements for the use of the blue car: “They won’t stop me, I won’t give up and I’ll carry on.”
Therefore, the president of the regional council does not back down when faced with the risk of having to face a trial and waiting to understand what direction the other investigation will take for which in 2025 he gave up the most prestigious seat in the Citadel. In the building that houses the Region’s offices, however, many are wondering what will happen from here on out. Occhiuto continues to assure that it is his intention to complete the mandate that the Calabrians re-entrusted to him just over a year ago and carry forward his liberal project – with leadership ambitions – within Forza Italia. And yet those who know the administrative machinery well remember how it can become more complicated to lead a Region with the burden of open judicial procedures.
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