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Elly Schlein is the new secretary of the Democratic Party. In 80% of the seats scrutinized, she is ahead of Stefano Bonaccini: 53.8% against 46.2%. She is the first woman to lead the party. She and she is the youngest: she is 38 years old. “The democratic people is alive, there and is ready to get up with a clear line”. Elly Schlein said this while speaking at her committee headquarters. We will be a problem for the Meloni government, we will be here. Today there was another massacre that weighs on the consciences of those who a few days ago approved a decree that prevents rescues at sea when legal ways of entry into Europe would be needed”, he added, referring to the shipwreck of migrants in Calabria. ‘From tomorrow we will work together in the interest of the country. We will work for unity, my commitment is to be everyone’s secretary, to win again”.

With a short speech, the challenger acknowledged defeat: “The first thing I ask is to give Elly Schlein a round of applause – said Bonaccini – I heard her and congratulated her, good luck for the great responsibility that takes over leadership of the party. Elly has prevailed and I’m available to lend a hand.”

No split, Bonaccini reiterated: “Starting tomorrow we all have to lend a hand to relaunch the Democratic Party, we feel the responsibility to make ourselves available, we have to lend a hand to Elly. I’ve always said it: if I had won, I would have asked Elly to give me a hand, Elly prevailed and without asking anything for me I’m ready to lend a hand”. For Schlein, Senator Dario Franceschini was among the first to comment: “An overwhelming wave that no one believed. A wave of hopes, anger, pride, enthusiasm that led the democratic people to choose to be guided towards the future from a young woman. Today truly begins a new story.” According to data from the committee of him,

Schlein is ahead in 14 regions and in many cities, such as Naples, Milan and Bologna. Her results indicate her first in Liguria and Sicily. And in Tuscany, where the new regional secretary of the Democratic Party, Emiliano Fossi, is also part of Schlein’s team. In Puglia, on the other hand, Bonaccini is in the lead, also ahead of Caserta. The first images of the queues at the polling stations in the morning brought some calm to the rooms of the Democratic Party. And in Schlein’s team, which has always considered high attendance a plus. The data for the day immediately went beyond expectations: almost 600,000 voters at 1 pm. In the end there were one million. It’s not the 3.5 million in 2007 or the 1.6 million in 2019. But it’s still an unexpected result on the eve, when the two contenders were struggling to say goodbye and, cornered, they said that already one million voters would be been a success.

The expectations for the new season of the Pd also focus on the ability of those who go to sit at the Nazarene to build a new team, to move on with the managers. Throughout the campaign, the two challengers reproached each other for the closeness or support of the various top exponents of the party, accused of the crisis of the Democratic Party which culminated in the last defeat, that of the September policies: Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi and dem al 19.1%. Whoever takes the reins of the party is called to demonstrate the sense of change already from the names. There are no roles and tasks already defined. But there are the intentions of Bonaccini and Schlein and the faces of those who have supported them in recent months. The president of Emilia Romagna has repeatedly said that he is betting on local administrators. The competitor instead focuses on women and young people. Schlein chose deputy Marco Furfaro as spokesperson for the motion. In her team are also the deputies Chiara Braga and Chiara Gribaudo, the deputy Marco Sarracino, as well as the senator Francesco Boccia. The day of the two candidates began at the polls. Bonaccini voted in his native Campogalliano, in the province of Modena. Then, in the afternoon, he moved to Casalecchio di Reno, 10 kilometers from Bologna, to await the results of the vote. For Schlein, a gazebo in Bologna and, a few hours later, a train journey to Rome, to follow the phases of the counting in the committee set up in a theatre, the Spazio Diamante.

The file of the real estate departments returned to the fore once again, after the preliminary investigations were concluded in Baabda and were referred to the Appeal Public Prosecution, at a time when the interrogation investigations began in the Zalka district, bringing the number of detainees in the two departments to 54, and more than 30 people are in hiding, and two employees were released Two with surety bonds from the “Baabda” real estate.

The beginning is from Baabda, where the file was not referred to the Appeals Public Prosecution except after pressure from a group of lawyers and the families of the detainees, who record their objection to the arrests, considering them to be “arbitrary” and “discretionary” to blame corruption crimes on junior employees and brokers, while senior employees flee abroad. It also happened in the Chouf real estate department after one of the senior employees fled to America.

Baabda district

Thus, the Baabda file was referred to the Appeal Public Prosecution to review the basis and express an opinion on requests for release in preparation for the issuance of the indictment, and accordingly, according to a follow-up judicial source who confirmed to “Lebanon 24” that we may witness new releases in the next stage, but the matter may require more time.
According to the information, one of the detainees, named R. Dr.. From the Baabda district, she was exposed to a sudden health condition as a result of the difficult conditions in “Barbar El-Khazen” prison, where she was diagnosed with heart disease, which necessitated her transfer to “Al-Hayat” Hospital, and she is currently being treated “at the expense of her family,” as confirmed by the follow-up source.

Zalka district

The information confirms that all those in hiding from the Baabda district were issued arrest warrants in absentia, and this also happened in the Al-Matn district in Zalka, which did not happen with regard to some names in the Chouf district, which led to the flight of the employee concerned to America.

Before the Chouf, what happens in Zalka? The follow-up source says that the investigations began in Zalka and will continue until next week, after Judge Samer Lishaa charged 51 people, pending the expansion of the investigation and the issuance of arrest warrants similar to what happened in the second chambers.

The investigating judge in Mount Lebanon, Hanna Braidy, conducted his investigations with the arrested employees and brokers in the file of corruption, bribery and forgery in Zalka real estate. Lebanon 24 learned that some of the detainees’ families met with major political party figures to “mediate” to close the file or look into it, but they were met with complete rejection, especially because the file did not bear any religious or sectarian consequences.

Chouf district

As for the major catastrophe, it is in the Chouf, and follow-up sources confirm that major political interventions took place on several levels, the first of which was the delay in opening the file until some matters were settled, including the transfer of certain real estate belonging to one of the senior politicians, and secondly, allowing one of the senior employees to leave the country, and this is what actually happened. And the source confirms that he is now in the United States of America. Here, the discussion returns to the previous point, i.e. discretion in dealing. If search and investigation notes were written against the employees of the “Shouf” as what happened in Baabda and Al-Matn, this employee would not have become “in the news,” according to the source.

It is noteworthy that the Public Prosecutor of Appeal in Mount Lebanon, Judge Ghada Aoun, had asked a week ago to hear this employee in the case, but the investigations were not completed there, but rather moved to Zalka and Aley, without issuing a search and investigation warrant against this employee, which led to his escape, and he has a lot in his pocket. Among the files that expose the involvement of politicians, personalities, employees and brokers in major corruption files.

Thus, the investigations in these departments expand, amid major political and judicial interventions, which may raise many question marks about the results of the investigation and the accountability of the corrupt in departments that have been hotbeds of corruption for many years.

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The real estate department file is to the fore.. The escape of employees and the difficult health conditions of a woman arrested from the Baabda district