For the Democratic Party in Sicily the clock hands seems to be back ten years: then the “war” between Renziani and Cuperliani crossed the government of Rosario Crocettathen delivering the region to the center -right. Now the rift is for the regional congress: on the one hand the Schlein area that supports the re -acting of the outgoing secretary Anthony Barbagalloon the other the composite front of dissidents.
After the renunciation of applying the president of the regional anti -mafia Antonello Cracolici For “the silence of the national secretariat compared to the mediation attempt”, the opponents have chosen the hardest line: they will not participate in the congress. Not only that. In the National Guarantee Commission of the Dem, as some managers report, appeals are about to suspend the congress phase due to alleged irregularities in the regional assembly, celebrated last January.
“It is much easier to make a pope with the conclave that a secretary of the Democratic Party in Sicily”, says the group leader of the Democratic Party at the Sicilian Regional Assembly Michele Catanzarospeaking at the press conference at the party headquarters together with other dissident managers. “Until a few weeks ago we said that we were ready to participate in the congress, but we needed to understand what was consumed in the January assembly – says Catanzaro -. We wanted to bring the party to a congress with the primaries open, but we were not given the opportunity to do it, which we also told Schlein. We are not deserters, however, a strong tear has been consumed ».
That January assembly, for the opponent front, represents a sort of Deadline. “Except that they were not cases of homonymy, among the list of voters in that assembly there were also deceased people, and there were connected people who were not entitled to vote”, attacks the MEP Giuseppe Lupo. The regional deputy urges Fabio Venice: sEsantacinque connected online were not components of the assembly, 52 people with false or unidentified profiles, there were absurd names such as “Merlò, the” black cat “and others». Lupo reports that to the Commissioner for Congress Nico Stumpto“We asked for the names of those who voted: we were told that the company that dealt with the online vote no longer had the names because they had been destroyed a few hours later”. “Stumpto has no replacement powers to give as approved a regulation that has not been approved – attacks -. He is commissioner ad acta to manage the party not to replace the party assembly.
Do they want to abolish the primaries? They convened the assembly, in presence. If there is an absolute majority, alive democracy. With an irregular vote, no one can allow to repeal the primaries from the regional statute of the Democratic Party ». But Barbagallo goes on, thanks to the support of the “very large and decidedly majority body of the Sicilian party” which signed his candidacy “.” Sorry that a part of the party has decided to escape – but, but, with a spirit of opening and inclusion, we will obstinately try to involve everyone in this process “. Today the deadline for the presentation of the applications has expired, the vote in the clubs and for the provincial congresses May 30th.