On the second day of Leopolda arrives the defense pleading by Matteo Renzi, his own lawyer on the Open case, an investigation in which he is investigated for illegal party funding: a "Kafkaesque trial", he defines it, and a "media sputtanazione", for which "I will go to the criminal court to defend myself" and "I will ask to speak at all hearings", because "who decides what is political and what is not, in democratic countries, is the Parliament", and not the magistrates .
"The essence of Open - he said - is that it organized Leopolda" and Open was a foundation, not a party. "I am absolutely certain that I have never violated the law, least of all that on the financing of politics; what I think of the investigation is that some investigators have probably violated the Constitution. Two years ago they made a Mafia-like raid by going to phones of people not investigated, I think it is a very serious thing ".
According to Renzi, the leaders of the Renzian current of the Democratic Party were Lorenzo Guerini and Paolo Gentiloni, and both "had no economic relationship with Open". For the leader of Italia Viva, the prosecutors of Florence in charge of the Open investigation held "a populist attitude", because "since they found nothing, they trawled, which is a very serious act. It is not enough to invade the land of politics, but we also need an invasion of the field in the personal sphere, so the Florentine prosecutors go to get cell phones and computers from 40 not under investigation, but who gave money to Leopolda ".
The accusation of illicit financing, Renzi added, "suggests that there is money not regularly reported, taken in violation of the rules, but then it turns out that that money is all tracked and reclaimed", and perhaps "the magistrates think that the currents work as in the judiciary ", but" if you want to understand how politics works - he said, addressing the prosecutors - you have to run and stay within a party that is in Parliament, do not go and get the phones of those who are totally out of it each other ".
IL QUIRINALE - The challenge for the Quirinale has also started from the Leopolda stage. For Renzi we need "a reformist, pro-European profile, which is against sovereignty".
The idea is that we must start from a name that can suit all the forces of a majority that goes from Leu to the League.
The good name - the Renzians say - will come at the last moment, and will be the result of a silent and tiring job, done by those who know how to do politics. A name that is made in the corridors of the Leopolda is that of Marta Cartabia, for example. While the Berlusconi card is rejected. Too divisive and Iv doesn't like the idea. The hypothesis that Sergio Mattarella can grant an encore has now been set aside. And Mario Draghi? He wouldn't mind if he stayed at Palazzo Chigi until 2023, also to avert the vote next year.
(Unioneonline / D)
