Former Governor of the Venice region Giancarlo Galan
Giancarlo Galan, the man who said “I am Veneto”, the unchallenged Doge of Venice, the governor who for three decades has made good and bad weather from the Dolomites to the Adriatic, is now no longer anyone – politically speaking.
The Council of Deputies has voted overwhelmingly, 388 votes in favor, 40 against and 7 abstentions.
A verdict which came nearly two years after his arrest for corruption, which occurred in July 2014, half a year after settleing his sentence of two years and ten months imprisonment, which the now former MP is serving under house arrest.
A bitter epilogue to the seller of Publitalia who was among the first to follow the rising star of Italy’s former PM Berlusconi , becoming a Plenipotentiary Knight, which gave many satisfactions after his election.
In his defense, the former governor of the Venice region, Giancarlo Galan has raised the voice of Gregory Fontana (Forza Italy), a shadow rapporteur, who supported the non-retroactivity of Severino law.
Paola Serverino is the first woman appointed minister of justice in Italy.
But it was clear that no one would have altered the positions formed a couple of weeks ago in which the board of elections were appointed and summarized by the speaker Alessandro Pagano.
Galan’s defense was so well prepared, he immediately made known his desire to appeal to the European Court of Justice for an annulment measure.
Giancarlo Galan, al tempo governatore della Regione Veneto,
Assisted by lawyers Antonio Franchini and Niccolo Ghedini, Berlusconi will travel the same path.
They will argue that the decline of the parliamentary act is illegitimate because the penalty for rulings occurred when the Severino law had not been approved. It would, in his view, result in a retroactive application, that the judiciary does not allow.
Secondly, former governor of the Venice region Giancarlo Galan has not strayed from the villa on the Euganean Hills which has been rented from the state as compensation, as well as the luxurious Villa Rodella in Cinto Euganeo, a necessary condition to obtain the green light to compensation.
He waited in his new home before the news was quite obvious that favor for him fell, and the decison was made one day after having already lost a villa, he once owned and has been found free of guarantees,and also faces a new blow to the balance.
Before the Court of Venice, Conti discussed yesterday a request to seize the villa’s assets for a value of €5.8 million , in addition to fees for damages, The state claims to have suffered from unlawful conduct, alleged in the indictment of the Venetian investigation.
The judges have also reserved a decision which mainly affects future earnings of Galan and definitely comes from the political scene; not just in the Northeast where Galan has been seen as a protagonist of the last twenty years, even though he was elected governor of Veneto three times, where there has been no history of moderates.
In 1995, he defeated former mayor of Padua Ettore Bentsik, in 2000 he outdistanced by 17 percentage points, the mayor-philosopher Massimo Cacciari, and in 2005 exceeded the former industrial vice president of the Venetian area, Massimo Carraro, who put him on the ropes in the end. It was only the League’s Luca Zaia who managed to obtain the 2010 non-candidacy of Doge blue by Berlusconi, on condition he was to favor Padano. Galan was thought to be a classic Venetian leader, claiming to be very attached to the Veneto region.
But, as shown by the investigation, he was also closely tied to business of power and a leadership which ran bursting with personalism.
The appointments to the Minister for Agriculture (2010-11) and Cultural Heritage (2011-2013) was the type of compensation that gave him national visibility.
Then came the knock-out punch of the Venice public prosecutor who stated that in 2003, before the Anti-Mafia Commission in Venice, an institutional reform, referring and Moses Project and Passante di Mestre.
TARANTO – The Carabinieri of the Taranto Main Station carried out an order for custody in prison, issued by the investigating judge of the Court
“I have already been put in some great works, which will bring investments here the amount of which makes me shudder, for the responsibility now assigned us. Investments of this type represent a considerable appeal, for the most ancient laws of man, so it will take a maximum of transparency, efficiency and oversight. “
translated from original Italian article by me
authored by Giuseppe Pietrobelli | April 27, 2016