The 5 Star MoVement keeps its promises and it has presented a petition to send home Formigoni. Our lawyers have checked that Formigoni in Lombardy and Errani in Emilia Romagna are still ineligible in spite of the decree that went through Parliament on 15 April. The duo PDL-PDminusL has gone over the limit of two consecutive terms of office. Formigoni and Errani could not have been elected. The law is really clear. Article 2, comma f says: “it is established that there is the non-immediate re-eligibility at the end of the second consecutive term of office of the President of the regional Junta elected by universal and direct suffrage, on the basis of the current regional regulations relating to this matter.” The emeritus president of the Constitutional Court, Valerio Onida confirmed this in an interview. In the next few weeks there will be a hearing at the Milan Tribunal to discuss the eligibility of Formigoni. The blog will follow this. The silence of ALL the parties on the umpteenth violation of the law and the indifference relating to the voters is the proof that for them the elections are simply a matter of sharing out the seats and reimbursement of elections expenses.

”On 20 May 2010, the 5 Star MoVement presented a petition against Roberto Formigoni. The petition was laid before the civil section of the Milan Tribunal and asks for the end of the appointment of Roberto Formigoni as President of the region of Lombardy as he has been elected for the fourth consecutive time in clear violation of law 165/2004 that sets out the ineligibility of anyone who has already had two elected terms of office. After the elections, they tried to put through an “interpretive law”, the umpteenth “interpretive law”, to add that its efficacy is not retroactive.
They inserted an amendment into the law converting the save-the-list decree, but it was thrown out by Parliament, a sudden feeling of pride, perhaps a sense of shame, not simple political games within the Majority. After that, on 15 April, the law converting the save-the-list decree without that amendment was passed, thus there is no measure in existence that can save Formigoni and Errani.
Yes, because even Vasco Errani in Emilia Romagna is ineligible for the same reasons, and this is why the PD has remained silent, has slept during the whole of this election campaign. The law is clear: anyone who has had two terms of office is ineligible, and it is thus applicable.
For anyone who objects that to apply that regulation, the Region should have passed its own regional election law to assimilate it, we respond that there is a clear conflict of interests (which by now is normal in this country), the President of the Junta who should promulgate this law is the very same person who would suffer the declaration of ineligibility.
Paradoxically, but perhaps not too paradoxically, if this law were never promulgated in the region of Lombardy, Formigoni could put himself forward as a candidate for the whole of his life, thus willingly eluding a precise state prohibition.
The Milan Tribunal will fix a hearing and at that hearing we will all be there to remind people that Formigoni is illegitimately occupying the position of President of the Region.
Soon we will present the same petition in Emilia Romagna. They will never give up. Neither will we.” Vito Crimi, 5 Star MoVement Lombardy