He thundered so much Giuseppe Conte against the Governor of Puglia Michele Emiliano which ultimately saved his seat. Who remembers the indictment of the leader of the Five stars against Emiliano when a judicial storm broke out in Puglia and the Apulian Governor, complete with arrests that seemed to shake seas and mountains? It was just an unseasonal storm because Conte, after having stipulated a new power agreement with Emiliano, yesterday saved him from the no-confidence vote presented to the Regional Council by the right and by Italia Viva by Matteo Renzi, voting in support of the Governor with the Democratic Party and with Action by Carlo Calenda (“We do not vote on motions of no confidence based on criminal investigations”). The idea that Conte, like Emiliano, is a master of transformism and somersaults is nothing new: just remember that, without blushing, in the last national legislature he formed a government with the League and another with the Democratic Party. Renzi comments sarcastically: “If Five Star and Action had voted against Emiliano, yesterday Emiliano would have gone home. These are the facts, the rest is chatter."
Beyond the judicial investigations, which are the responsibility of the judiciary, the daring rescue of a cacique like Emiliano, king of transformism and political populism, undermines the credibility of Conte and Calenda but also leaves a terrible impression on the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, who had called for a moral and political revolution in Puglia and asked for a reshuffle from Emiliano and a reshuffle is found. The fight against the caciques is not for today. Everyone already from the tower.
