Roberto Cotachiño has taken courage. After a two year period of “mutism” he said: “Let Grillo not be seen again in Val di Susa instead of overheating the spirits and doing damage.” I consider that to be an invitation. I will act in such a way as to go frequently to this really beautiful valley. Cotachiño is never seen in Val di Susa. Let him go and hold a political rally, let him explain to the people of the Valley the reasons (non-existent) for the 22 billion TAV. I invite him to go to Chiomonte or to la Maddalena as soon as possible without body guards instead of hiding behind Maroni’s skirts. The Lega in Val di Susa is not the master or mistress in the house of others; the masters and mistresses are the people of the Val di Susa. The bluff of the Po Valley is deflating, like every other promise of the Lega in the last twenty years. The people of the North want secession, certainly they want that, but from the Lega people who give 90-degree support to the PDL that has Mangano as its hero.
Cotachiño should no longer let himself be seen in the Regional Council. He’s an illegal president. “Fora di bal e fora da Turin.” Cotachiño was elected thanks to Michele Giovine’s list called "Pensionati per Cota" {Pensioners for Cota}. The list collected 27,000 votes, but it should never have been admitted to the elections. The signatures of 17 out of 19 candidates were in fact false, as was verified in the criminal courts last week. A false list decided the elections in Piedmont. Cotachiño has to resign. The blog will follow the outcome of this electoral farce very closely. In November a verdict in the administrative field could (should!) invalidate the vote and call new elections and call Cota to return to the “fatal Novara”.
Meanwhile the Cabinet of Piedmont of the “Party of the Honest” (copyright held by Angelino Alfano) is losing its bits. Last May the councillor Caterina Ferrero was placed under house arrest for an invitation to tender for the distribution of 50 million euro of incontinence pads in the pharmacies rather than through the National Health Service. This weekend I’m inviting Cota to go on a family outing to Val di Susa. The air is great and the citizens are anxiously waiting for him. Let him take an incontinence pad with him, you never know.