Genoa Dam, Liguria Council to vote on the ‘Spinelli challenge’

(ANSA) – GENOA, MAY 17 – The Liguria Regional Council can be referred to as on Tuesday to solid a vote to finish the second lot of the brand new dam within the port of Genoa, which in accordance with the previous president of the Liguria Area Claudio Burlando is “often known as a challenge Spinelli”, the port entrepreneur who ended up underneath home arrest for corruption along with the president of the Area Giovanni Toti. Three days after the laying of the primary underwater caisson of the most important intervention to strengthen the Italian port system additionally financed via the Pnrr – confirmed on 24 Might – the Ligurian legislative meeting on Tuesday 21 Might will vote on a invoice to grant a mortgage of 57 million earmarked from the Liguria Area to the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea so as to finance the completion of the second lot of the dam. It is going to be the primary check for the centre-right majority within the Regional Council after the arrest of governor Toti. The mortgage is contained in an article of a broader invoice on ‘Provisions for the variation of regional laws’ entitled ‘Measures aimed on the development of the second section of the brand new breakwater of the port of Genoa’. The confrontation continues between the opposition forces within the Regional Council, the centre-left and the M5S, who now seem like about to vote in opposition to the measure for causes of political expediency given the continuing investigation and for financial causes. “The Area’s mortgage will value over 3 million in curiosity on the backs of the Ligurians”, estimates the group chief of the unbiased left Gianni Pastorino (Linea Condivisa). No remark in the mean time from the interim president of the Liguria Area Alessandro Piana, however the center-right may specific a positive vote on the availability accepted by the Toti council on 18 April when the now ‘suspended’ president was nonetheless in workplace. (HANDLE).