Tedesco, who is the former cabinet member for health in Vendola’s Cabinet, will not go to prison. The Bari Prosecutors Office asked for his arrest. The Immunity Committee, chaired by Marco Follini, turned down the request. By now, Parliament is a free zone, not subject to the law. Tedesco is in the PDminusL which he joined after the Mixed Group as a face saving exercise. Twelve people from the PDL and the Lega voted against the arrest, however, the magnificent seven of the PDminusL and the IDV voted for the arrest of their former party and coalition colleague. They could afford to do that as there were fewer of them. Tedesco was not going to prison anyway and they made a good impression. It’s so “chic” that they are even indignant for the “slaughter of the rule of law”. The turbulence in relation to companion Tedesco, Vendola’s right hand man, was known about for a long time and before the possible arrest, it was organised for the optimum Bersani to enter the Senate in place of Paolo De Castro who resigned because of incompatibility. In Apulia, no one knew anything. Vendola was too busy with Marcegaglia’s incinerators, with Don Verzè’s hospitals financed by the Region, the funny stories about public water, but even by an unlimited company and with the “spoils system”. “The political praxis of the “spoils system” was in fact so pressing in the regional Health System as to lead the governor Nichi Vendola, even to support the appointment of one of his “protected” people for the position of director general, even to insist on changing the law for "usum delphini”, to overcome the obstacles in the regulations preventing the appointment of the person that he wanted so much.” In the words of the investigating magistrate at the Bari tribunal, from the document used to ask the Senate for authorisation to arrest Tedesco. Most of the Regions’ expenditure goes on the Health System and Tedesco was Vendola’s earring, the sultan of Apulia.
Tedesco is the protagonist actor in a modern fairy story, in which Parliament is an inviolable castle, the magistrates are made fun of, the guilty one doesn’t go to prison, his party condemns him to be used by the simpletons, knowing full well that he will be saved. The one with political responsibility, Vendola, plays the part of the three monkeys and then everyone shoots off to the restaurant to express indignation at the veal tail stew, with Bersani at the head of the table. What more do you want from a fairy story with a happy ending? See you in parliament unless they do an electoral law that prevents that.

PS: There are no plans for national meetings of the M5S nor for new versions of Woodstock at Rimini as reported in some newspapers.