Toti, Nordio: 'Perplexed about the timing of the measure'. Conte calls for resignation

With different accents and modulations, the various oppositions are calling for a redde rationem at the Liguria summit. The centre-right tends to throw water on the fire, but it is significant that FdI remains at the moment on a more wait-and-see position. 'I do not know the acts and as a garantist I always think of the presumption of innocence. I understand, however, that these are facts that date back a few years and that the investigation did not start today but some time ago,' commented Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on the Genoa investigation. "I have been a public prosecutor for forty years and I have rarely asked for precautionary measures after years of investigation. My perplexities are never about the moment when the precautionary measure is triggered with respect to the imminence of the elections' but 'if I have technical perplexities they concern a measure with respect to the time when the crime was committed and the investigation began'.

"To say that we are guarantors is not to do so formally. We have always been and not in an alternating current. In these terms of office he has been a good governor, he has governed well. I have also witnessed arrests that then turned into nothing'. The leader of Noi Moderati Maurizio Lupi does not enter into the issue of resignation ('it belongs to everyone's responsibility and sensitivity') and clears the field of hidden logic behind the judges' decision. 'There is no clockwork justice, the investigation has been ongoing for some time. I am amazed, the way I know Toti I am sure he did not commit what he is accused of'. Every possibility is open at this point. 'The fact happened a few hours ago, but nothing can be excluded. In Liguria, elections have been scheduled since October 2025, but the hypothesis of early elections in the region cannot be ruled out at this point. And we also have to see the choices that Toti will make, perhaps in order to defend himself in a more serene way he prefers to resign and everything falls and we go to the vote. It's really too early to add anything else,' says MP and Ligurian coordinator of FdI. Matteo Rosso.

"The enquiry has just come out, there are precise facts and serious allegations it is good to draw the consequences in order to keep the institutions safe," suggests M5S president Giuseppe Conte. On his social Nicola Fratoianni is aligned in calling for maximum rigour. "The intermingling of politics and private companies with millionaire interests linked to public administration is a real disease that must be eradicated. And it is the main reason why I believe that Toti should resign and that the citizens of Liguria should be given their say again'. For the leader of the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra, 'this is not a judgement on judicial matters, let me be clear, but an exclusively political one. Because when there are such dangerous exchanges between votes, electoral funding and building practices and the concession of public property, I think it is necessary to resign'.

"A bleak, but in truth not surprising picture emerges. That there was excessive promiscuity between institutional functions and economic circles is a fact that had emerged and was also denounced by us. It is now necessary to prevent this very serious short-circuit from undermining the interests of the region and the major investments that concern it. It is therefore necessary to prevent the situation from spiralling out of control. The considerations that beyond the criminal profiles we must already express, on the basis of the picture we have, is that there is a need to start a strong regeneration process in the interest of the region and the people of Liguria'. These are the words of PD deputy and former Minister of Labour Andrea Orlando, talking to journalists in the Chamber of Deputies. "If the papers, which we have not yet had the chance to read, confirmed the headlines, the political vulnus would be great and it seems to me difficult that a government experience so strongly affected could continue, and this regardless of the strictly criminal responsibilities". More direct, in a signed note, Pd Liguria and Pd Genoa. " What has emerged from the enquiry's investigations certifies a disgusting way of doing politics, aimed only at the management and division of power. The judiciary will take its course with respect to individual criminal responsibilities, but today we must close the season of the centre-right in Liguria. Toti should resign and there should be new elections immediately'. .