The President of the Valle d'Aosta Region, Antonio Fosson , resigns . This was announced during an extraordinary majority meeting at the Regional Palace. The reasons are related to the guarantee notice received by the Dda for mafia political election exchange regarding an investigation on the conditioning of the 2018 Regionals in the Aosta Valley by the 'ndrangheta. Councilors Laurent Viérin (tourism and cultural heritage) and Stefano Borrello (public works) have also announced that they will resign. The director Luca Bianchi, on the other hand, will leave the position of commission president and group leader of the Union valdotaine. All three are under investigation - together with Fosson - by exchange vote.
"I strongly emphasize my total extraneousness with respect to the facts I have read in the last few days in the newspapers," said the President of the Valle d'Aosta Region, Antonio Fosson, explaining the reasons that led to his resignation. "I have called you here - he added - to communicate that, to honor that sense of political responsibility that I have always pursued and also to safeguard my personal dignity, deeply wounded by the infamous hypotheses that are formulated, I decided to take a step back and give my resignation from the office of President of the Region ". "It was a great honor for me - he concluded - to be president of this wonderful region for which I worked with commitment and honesty".
Salvini, freeing the region - "New and clean air is needed, Valle D'Aosta deserves a different and unpolluted future. We are ready to free this wonderful region from any kind of conditioning, without accepting compromises. Well the resignation of Fosson, Friday I will be in Aosta to meet the citizens and to prepare the rescue of the respectable people of the Valley ". Thus the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini.