The storm that has unleashed on the administrations of Northern Italy does not seem to have ended. After Formigoni's suspicious relations with some entrepreneurial exponents, the presidency and some general directorates of Emilia Romagna also end up in the crosshairs of the prosecutors.Governor Vasco Errani, President of the Conference of Regions and Commissioner for the earthquake, was indicted by the Bologna prosecutor for false ideology.
The disputed facts date back to 2006 when the cooperative of Errani's brother received a loan of one million euros from the Region, for the construction of a cellar. The loan would have been disbursed even if the works were not completed on schedule. In 2009 Il Giornale had raised some shadows on the financing. In that circumstance, false documents were allegedly produced and sent to the prosecutor by Errani to prove the legitimacy of the loan. As part of the investigation, 9 other people are being investigated on various charges. maximum political bodies. It is singular that this has happened in two regions where the regional institution has gained absolute centrality and where the Governors enjoy more than ten years of unshakeable consensus. It is no coincidence that both Formigoni and Errani were elected for their third term by exploiting the shortcomings of the incomplete legislature which forbade re-election after the second term. Probably legitimate practice, even if disputed, but, to tell the truth, which is considered as an indicator of little democracy when it occurs in the South American states. Two political fiefdoms seem to falter, and two super Governors see their power limited for the first time.
It will be up to the judiciary to establish whether the facts in question involve illicit behavior on the part of the Presidents, or whether the investigations will end with nothing, as the two directly involved proclaim. However, a reflection is necessary. At a time when the country suffers from a lack of innovative political forces, these lightnesses or misdeeds, they do nothing but perpetrate the trend of scandals that has deprived the parties of representativeness and consensus. In this situation of political vacuum, it becomes increasingly easier for populist forces, which have already gone on the offensive, to find good arguments to attract electoral favor. The risk is that it is the reasons for pre-approachism and improvisation that give the political system a jolt, rather than a political force capable of breaking the patterns that have trapped Italy.
