The candidate dem, after the warranty notice and the accusation of corruption, attacks the right: “Do they think of doing politics like this?”. But in the meantime Avs and M5S take time.
Bad period for the Democratic Party. If on the one hand the Milanese investigations The Milanese administration led by Beppe Salaeven in the Marche the party of Elly Schlein He has his cats to peel. Here the problem is related to the name of Matteo RicciMEP Pd and candidate for the next regional regional ones for the Largo della Left field (5 stars included).
Ricci, who from 2014 to 2024 held the position of mayor of Pesaro, was reached in recent days by a warranty notice as investigated for alleged irregularities in custody of the Municipality of Pesaro. The investigation, renamed Custodysees 24 suspects, including 16 for “corruption”, including Ricci.
According to the accusation, an alleged pact between the former mayor Ricci, his collaborator Massimiliano Santini and the contact person of two non -profit associations, Stefano Esposto existed. For the prosecutor of Pesaro, the three would have drawn advantages: money and travels for Santini, huge earnings per complaint, and for curls a growth in popularity and political consensus, considered a significant “non -pecuniary utility”.
Far from being scratched by the warranty notice (making discharged on his collaborators), Ricci immediately went to the counterattack. Speaking from an electoral event in Fermo, the candidate dem for the Marche region thundered: «Is anyone really so worried about losing the elections he thinks of doing politics like this? They are frightened, the more they are afraid the more bad they are». There would therefore be the right according to the former mayor investigated behind the warranty notice delivered to him by the prosecutor, a very curious (and not very sensible) vision of the facts.
Ricci continued: «If they think they intimid me they did not understand what I am made of: I did the administrator with the utmost transparency. They will have the opposite effect, for them it will be a boomerang that they will remember for life ». The link between political rivals of the right and judicial investigations is not cleargiven the certainly not idyllic relations between the government and the judiciary, but who knows, perhaps for the candidate dem (and only for him) everything perfectly makes sense.
The fact is that the current governor of the Marche region, Francesco Acquaroli (Fdi), re -candidate for the center -right in the September elections, clarified during his electoral event that The investigation involving Ricci “we don’t care, it does not concern us and above all it will not be the subject of the election campaign”.
But let’s go back to the event of the candidate dem, at the end of his speech a promise arrived: “They are afraid, we will win”. Immediately after the end of his intervention, Ricci dribbed the questions of the reporters present, including that on a possible retreat of the 5 -star support.
The allies, however, seem to parade, at least until 30 July, the day when Ricci will be heard in the prosecutor. AVS has postponed the meeting of Ricci with Bonelli and Fratoiannischeduled for July 25, on August 1st, or after Ricci will have spoken to the prosecutors; The 5 Star Movement instead suspended the election campaign, Conte has made it known that he wants to “understand if he is moved a simple dispute for the expenses of the Municipality incorrect or if there are the elements of a dishonest conductwhich led to undue personal benefits. Conducted this which would be incompatible with our principles and our values ».
The line of the former mayor has been clear for a few days: «I have never put it on custody and work in 15 years as an administrator. I trusted my collaborator, whom I chose among the young people who took many votes. If he was wrong, what do I have to do with it? I am an injured party ».
Without entering the merits of the investigation, Ricci certainly goes the presumption of innocence, yet that a candidate for the regional presidency that supports as “Administration means changing people’s liveschange the world every day, “he says at the same time of”Having never poured on custody and work in 15 as an administrator“It does at least smile. Of the two, to administer or not administer? This is the dilemma.
