There are nine unpresentable candidates in the next municipal elections: one is a candidate in Naples.
The President of the parliamentary anti-mafia commission Nicola Morra today released the list of unpresentable candidates: “With regard to the elections for the City Council and Mayor of Naples, the candidate Carlo De Gregorio, for the Essere Napoli list, who supports the candidate for Mayor Catello Maresca, is included in the case referred to in article 11, paragraph 1, letter a), of the so-called Severino law.
The candidate, if elected, would be automatically suspended. In fact, he was convicted in the first instance for the crime referred to in article 73, paragraph 4 of Presidential Decree 309 of 1990 (importation, possession and trade of narcotic substances), with a penalty of 2 years of imprisonment and a fine of 5.200 euros”.
Among the unpresentable ones is also Mimmo Lucano, convicted in the trial on alleged illicit practices in the management of migrants and who is the only candidate for the Regionals, in Calabria. Instead, among the nine candidates for the municipal elections who do not pass the exam after the checks by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, four are running for the Municipalities in Rome: among these, Marcello De Vito, president of the Capitoline assembly (formerly M5s now in Forza Italia), has an immediate judgment decree for corruption for acts contrary to the duties of office in the context of the investigation into the construction of the Roma stadium.
From mafia association to extortion or money laundering, there are various crimes for which the parties' self-regulation code requests, without imposing it, the exclusion from the candidacies of those who have been sent to trial and therefore not only those convicted, as instead provided for by the Severino Law. According to the latter, the reported candidates, if elected, would see their office as representatives suspended.
With reference to the municipal elections, in addition to De Vito, the other "unpresentable" candidates indicated by the Antimafia in Rome are Maria Capozza (Forza Italia) Viorica Mariuta and Antonio Ruggiero (both of the Movimento Idea Sociale). The black list also includes candidates in the cities of Cosenza (Gianluca Guarnaccia, with two indictments against him, one for mafia-style association), Siderno (Domenico Barbieri, non-definitive sentence of six months for possession of narcotics), Naples (Carlo De Gregorio, sentenced against him for importing, possession and trafficking of narcotics), Bologna (Riccardo Monticelli, sentenced with an irrevocable sentence for the crime of possession for the purpose of dealing).
A separate position is that of Franco Metta, candidate for mayor of Cerignola, the court declared him ineligible because he was already mayor of a municipality dissolved for mafia reasons.
“Today the parliamentary anti-mafia commission has completed its work on the examination of thousands of candidates, in search of the so-called unpresentables for the regional and municipal elections of 3 and 4 October 2021. This year we have also worked on the municipalities already dissolved for mafia that will go to the vote.
The checks, therefore, focused on the regional lists in Calabria and the municipal councils of Bologna, Milan, Naples, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Varese, Latina, Caserta, Cosenza, Arzano (in the province of Naples), Cerignola (in the province of Foggia), Siderno, Careri, Delianuova, Palizzi and Stilo (all in the province of Reggio Calabria), Crucoli and Casabona (both in the province of Crotone)”. This was stated at the end of the work of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission by President Nicola Morra. “Unfortunately – comments Morra – there have been cases in which some unpresentable individuals have been replaced by relatives or relatives – the so-called figureheads – but formally nothing can be done about that, so it will also be up to the citizen voter to pay great attention to the candidates who submit to his scrutiny”.
Naples – An attempted robbery turned into a full-blown assault on officers. A 31-year-old Moroccan man, already known to law enforcement, who staged a violent resistance in the heart of the city, ended his morning of madness with handcuffs. The alarm and the robbery at the gas station... It all happened...
Naples – Hope hanging by a thin thread, but still intact. Monaldi Hospital has lifted its reservations regarding the case of the young patient who underwent surgery last December: the child will remain on the waiting list for a second heart transplant. The decision, officially announced today by the Health Director of the Colli Hospital, comes at the end of…
Naples - He had already been released at the end of January, just two weeks after the massive raid that dismantled the burglar ring. Now, after a new and complex judicial process, Angelo Michelini, believed by investigators to be one of the operatives of the "gang" led by Ciro Fabiano, has been granted house arrest once again. The ping-pong...
EDITORIAL TEAM
Choose the social channel you want to subscribe to