The internal decision of the Regional Electoral Guarantee College on the dismissal of the President of the Sardinia Region, Alessandra Todde, explodes in Parliament.
Sardinian MPs from Forza Italia, Fratelli d'Italia and Lega have presented an urgent question to the Minister of Justice, denouncing "serious irregularities and strong concerns" in the management of the dispute relating to the latest regional elections and requesting immediate inspections.
In the crosshairs is precisely President Todde, sanctioned by the College for violations of the law on transparency of electoral expenses (law 515/1993). Among the irregularities contested: the absence of the electoral agent, the failure to use a dedicated current account and the use of a report referable to a third-party committee. A situation that, according to the parliamentarians, prevents them from accurately reconstructing the expenses of the campaign.
But the most critical passage concerns a procedural choice within the College : the revocation, without motivation, of the mandate of the lawyer Riccardo Fercia, defender of the body in the ongoing trials, also before the Constitutional Court. The act bears the signature of the new acting president, Massimo Costantino Poddighe.
According to the deputies, this is an anomalous decision, which has left the College without a technical defense just as decisive steps are being discussed . Complicating the situation is the personal relationship between Poddighe and Marcella Marchioni, appointed by the Todde Council first to the Directorate of Financial Services, then as Secretary General of the Region: the two appear to be cohabiting.
A possible conflict of interest, according to the opposition, which "undermines the autonomy and independence of the judiciary" and which makes direct intervention by Minister Carlo Nordio necessary. The question, in fact, asks to evaluate disciplinary responsibilities and the activation of ministerial inspections at the Court of Appeal of Cagliari.
