The anecdote of the Governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, on the visit to the sisters of the boss Capriati which he made when he was mayor of Bari to protect the reclamation of the Old City of his then alderman, Antonio DeCaro, today mayor of the Apulian capital, speaks for itself but it is only the straw that breaks the camel's back. A vase that collects all the embarrassment of his party, the Pd, in the face of populism and the transformation of the Governor who is an unparalleled vote factory that has made him a stainless cacique and the absolute master of Puglia. One piece of data is enough to understand the Emilian effect: in the 2020 regional elections the former magistrate triumphed with 46,7%, beating the current minister Raffaele Fitto (38,9%) with a host of support lists including that of his party received only 17,2%. But where did Emiliano's empire come from? From a visibly transformative method of government that seeks out men and votes from the right and the left - anything other than a broad field, Emiliano's is a very broad field - even at the cost of unsustainable battles such as the one against the Tap which is now the fortune of Puglia. With this method Emiliano bypasses the parties and individually attracts politicians from all sides, not excluding the mayor of Nardò, Pippi Mellone, with a past in Casapound which the Governor supported with rare unscrupulousness. The list of pro-Emilian defectors is long: it ranges from the regional councilor for health, Rocco Palese, who was previously with Fitto, a Simone Di Cagno Abbrescia, former mayor and parliamentarian of Forza Italia, a Massimo Cassano, former PDL senator and former President of ARPAL, ad Alessandro Delli Noci, regional councilor for economic development of the liberal area, ad Anita Maurodinoia, regional transport councilor who comes from the right and is currently under investigation for vote-swapping. But the list doesn't end here. When he was elected mayor of Bari for the first time, Emiliano, released to the director of the Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Madeleine Tulanti a presentation interview which was titled: “I'm not a method, I do politics”. In reality, Emiliano had a method: it was that of transformism in search of the greatest possible power. And so he became the ras of Puglia. The fact that all this embarrasses his party and tarnishes the image of the Democratic Party does not seem to disturb him in the slightest. But perhaps it is time that the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein strike a blow on the strange Emiliano case. Or do you think that the re-foundation you are preaching could be based on people like the Governor of Puglia? We throw him from the tower.
Emiliano, the Apulian cacique who made transformism his governing style and who now embarrasses the Democratic Party
Far from being a broad field, that of the Governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, is a very broad field where he gathers men and votes from the right and left who have made him the ras of the region with a visibly transformative method. But does the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, have anything to say about the Emiliano case?