Gossip and political landslides: the twilight of the king of Puglia Emiliano

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The turmoil in the Apulian emirate is increasingly loud. The final stretch of Sheikh Michele Emiliano 's second mandate is accompanied by a series of frictions, expansions and reductions underway by the coalition, micro-polemics, leaks, requests for folding seats , assurances on the future requested by his nomenclature up to the sprinkling of gossip, with the announcement of a complaint by the lawyer Nancy Dell'Olio for a smoky and almost cinematic issue all linked to her consultancy on tourism.

The final navigation of Emilianism is therefore a story of fits and starts that can only be deciphered with the lexicon of finance: everything is stagnant while waiting for the handover to the designated presidential candidate, the Democratic MEP Antonio Decaro . First, it is all a wait for the moment to switch, that is, to transfer not from one investment fund to another, but from one leader to another, the legacy of the “Puglia Spring”, a season that began in 2005 with the election of Nichi Vendola. In the middle, there have been a series of brawls: the approval of a law that makes it uphill for mayors to run for regional council with the obligation to resign by mid-March (180 days before the vote), a guillotine rule that passes the nominations to the agencies through the assembly, removing it from the presidential sphere , and a majority with small numbers, hanging on the requests of the peons of the most unscrupulous civic spirit, with a series of sessions closed due to lack of a quorum.

Here are the numbers that are a sign of this end-of-empire moment: Anita Maurodinoia, a former regional councilor for the Democratic Party (and a near election to the Chamber of Deputies in 2022), has left the center-left, having already suspended herself after the controversy related to the Internal Code investigation. “Lady preferences” said goodbye to her companions, accusing them of having been almost “togati”: “You find yourself - she said as she took her leave - surrounded by a suffocating climate, among other things weighed down by poisons, obstacles, brakes and impediments cloaked in the most abject hypocrisy. I have been excluded from meetings, gatherings, initiatives and council commissions. An isolation that, in fact, confirms a judgment that, it seems, the colleagues of the group and the party have already ruled, unlike those who, by law, still have to do so”. Then Napoleone Cera also left, a former Forza Italia member whom the sheik had only enlisted in December by having him vote on the Budget : now he has joined the League to defend "the reasons of his territory", playing an easier game for re-election. Mauro Dinoia and Cera, follow the passages in the center-right of Tupputi and Lanotte, two other civic members elected in the ranks of the omnivorous civicism of the sheik, and now settled under the Forza Italia banner. Defection after defection, the numbers are in the end partly guaranteed by the four councilors of the M5S , a patrol that left the majority after the judicial investigations of last spring, despite voting for all the political address acts proposed by the progressives. Hence the immobility of the regional assembly, with the president Loredana Capone forced to invoke "the sense of responsibility" of the members of the Council to revive the legislative activities frozen for months.

Finally, there is also the itchy appendix of a complaint that Nancy Dell'Olio allegedly made after a series of poisonous interviews against the governor described in the Emir-Alain Delon version, who downplayed everything with a sibylline "old stuff". But the fresco of the former Swedish coach Sven Goran Eriksson unravels almost a cinematic script, with details that would whet the appetite of one of those filmmakers looking for the itchy in politics: there is the invitation to dinner in the panoramic restaurant of the Hotel delle Nazioni, the menu with tuna tartare and baked sea bass, and the feminine charm (according to Dell'Olio) that would have played a role, only to then not be sealed in a long-awaited contract renewal .

Between presumed seduction and power that appears less sumptuous, we await the switch, the entrance onto the field of the new centre-forward, Antonio Decaro, powerful president of the Environment Commission in Brussels, who, far from the spotlight, is gathering his troops to prepare the conquest of the presidential palace , with an almost obvious desire for new faces to mark a break from the era marked by the protagonism of Sheikh Mike.

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