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(ANSA) – BARI, MARCH 19 – “Today an act of war was signed against the city of Bari. Minister Piantedosi informed me by telephone that the access commission aimed at verifying a hypothesis of dissolution of the Municipality has been appointed” of Bari. The mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, announced it on Facebook. The ministerial commission was appointed to ascertain the alleged mafia infiltration in the Bari municipal council and in other municipal companies after the arrest of 130 people in an investigation by the Bari DDA which revealed an alleged mafia-political connection with vote swapping in the municipal elections of 2019. Mayor Decaro explains that “the act, like a clockwork mechanism, follows the request of a group of Apulian centre-right parliamentarians, including two deputy ministers of the government and refers to the investigation for vote exchange in which Among others, the lawyer Giacomo Olivieri and his wife, a city councilor elected from the centre-right ranks, were arrested.” “Heedless – he continues – of the words of the anti-mafia district attorney who in the press conference said verbatim: “the municipal administration of Bari in recent years has been able to respond to organized crime”, the same individuals who in 2019 brought two councilors to the City Council arrested for vote swapping, they are now pushing for the dissolution of a large regional capital, an event that has never happened in Italy, not even at the time of the investigation into Mafia Capitale”. According to Decaro, this is “a very serious act, which aims to sabotage the regular course of the democratic life of the city of Bari, precisely (coincidentally) on the eve of the elections. Elections that the centre-right in Bari have been losing consecutively for twenty years. For the who are struggling to find a candidate and who this time want to win by fixing the game”. (HANDLE).
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