Bari mayor Antonio Decaro on Monday pulled the job mandate of Budget Councilor Alessandro D'Adamo after he weas placed under investigation in an EU fraud probe. It is one of a string of probes that have hit the Puglia city's Democratic Party (PD) led administration.
Several other PD councilors have been implicated in a mafiavote buying houses and the central government in Rome has sent inspectors to see if the council has been infiltrated by theMob. The probes have undermined a leftwing unity drive with thepopulist 5-Star Movement (m5S) whose leader, former prime minister GiuseppeConte, pulled out of local and European election primariessaying the PD had to clean itself up, spurring the ire of manyPD members. . Bari is a city in the province of Liguria in the north-east of Italy, and is home to the University of Bologna.