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«There will be many of us, including senators, deputies and representatives of the local party, in Palermo. Certainly compatibly with the work in progress in both chambers on Wednesday. But we will not miss our usual presence. The ranks, inside Fratelli d’Italia, are very tight: tomorrow, at the torchlight vigil in commemoration of the massacre in which Paolo Borsellino lost his life 31 years ago with the men and women of his escortorganized every year by the right, there will be many. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will certainly be in Palermo. Probably, however, more for an institutional initiative, perhaps directly in via D’Amelio, than the procession.

The torchlight vigil will be attended by Chiara Colosimo, president of the anti-mafia commission, Wanda Ferro, who is also undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, and then Francesco Filini and Sara Kelany of the party’s research office, Raoul Russo, Sicilian senator and Fabio Roscani, president of the National Youth , youth movement of FdI. The ministers for Sport, Andrea Abodi, and for Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano will certainly be in Palermo. Expected in the program of one of the other two events organized by FdI in Palermo, one tomorrow, «Let’s deny her consent! Youth and the culture of legality», promoted by the Italian Youth Agency. The minister will speak at the other, “Talk about the mafia”, organized for Friday Nello Musumecithe vice president of Copasir, Giovanni Donzelli, and the undersecretary of Justice, Andrea Delmastro
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Initiatives to reclaim the fight against organized crime as one of the founding themes of FdI, just following the example of Borsellino. «They are not initiatives made to repair something – specifies the party leader in the Chamber, Tommaso Foti -. Anyone who has a right-wing history knows well what the years of lead and the years of the mafia meant».

However, the controversy triggered by the words of the Minister of Justice Charles Nordio
on the need to reformulate the crime of external competition in mafia associations, rages. Yesterday Salvatore Borsellinobrother of the killed magistrate, presenting the procession organized for tomorrow by the July 19 Coordination, which includes 13 acronyms including CGIL and Red Agendas, under the banner of the slogan “Enough State Mafia”, warned: “We don’t want vultures in via D’Amelio, hypocrites wearing false crowns and honours.” To then go straight to the goal: «Minister Nordio’s utterances have shown a willingness to demolish the legislation conceived by Falcone and Borsellino». Then he launched a direct appeal to the premier: «If I have the opportunity to meet Giorgia Meloni I will ask her how to reconcile her commitment in politics born after the death of my brother and the utterances of her minister. And I don’t expect words but facts: censure Nordio or get him out of the government».

The Minister of Justice will not be in Palermo, but, his staff inform, he will commemorate the magistrate with a religious ceremony in Rome. Even the leaders of FI and Lega and deputy premiers, Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini, do not have an appointment in Sicily on their agenda. As well as the president of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana and, as far as we know so far, that of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa. In the climate of opposition, the forces of order are also on the alert for the concomitance of the two initiatives of opposite political sign: the torchlight vigil and the procession. Despite being scheduled hours apart from each other. The commissioner of Palermo, Leopoldo Laricchia, summoned Salvatore Borsellino yesterday. The goal is to avoid “provocations” such as those that on May 23, the anniversary of the Capaci massacrecaused scuffles.

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