The motion of no confidence against the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, who has been under house arrest since 7 May, presented in the Regional Council by four of the five opposition political forces: Pd, Lista Sansa, M5S and Linea Condivisa, excluding Action, was rejected. There were 18 votes against (the entire centre-right) and 11 in favor (Pd, Lista Sansa, M5S and Linea Condivisa). The Action group leader, who did not sign the document, was absent because he was on leave for “personal reasons”.
«A president of the Region who in the offices of the Region together with the mayor of Genoa for the local elections organizes the votes of the mafiosi, can no longer be president of the Region, he must resign». These were the words of the leader of the Democratic Party in the Liguria Regional Council Luca Garibaldi, which motivated in the chamber the motion of no confidence presented by the opposition against the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti who has been under house arrest since 7 May. Garibaldi's words, referring to the alleged votes of the Riesina community conveyed by the brothers Arturo and Maurizio Testa, exponents of Forza Italia in Lombardy accused of electoral corruption committed in order to facilitate mafia activity, sparked a roar among the majority benches with some councilors who reminded Garibaldi that each councilor is “responsible for his words”.
«We do not take moral and political lessons from the Democratic Party and the opposition. The licenses to administer are issued by the people, not the Democratic Party. The losers in the 2020 regional elections in Liguria today hope to win by taking the judicial route.” Thus the group leader of Forza Italia in the Liguria Regional Council Claudio Muzio attacks the motion of no confidence against the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti presented in the legislative assembly by the opposition. «After having opened the licensing office of morality a few years ago, now closed, today the Democratic Party also opens the licensing office of political capacity: – comments Muzio – it is the assumption of a role that the citizens have not assigned to it . When we were elected in 2015, someone from the opposition benches defined us as a Brancaleone army, and we saw how it ended: in 2020 the real owner of the driving license office, that is, the people, soundly rejected the coalition led by Ferruccio Sansa instead chose, once again, this majority, and he did so with a percentage never seen before in our Region, 56%. The political failure, if anything, is that of the Democratic Party and the left in Liguria. Let's not take lessons from those who were sensationally defeated at the polls and today hope to win by taking the judicial route.”