"There are very urgent needs for the protection of primary goods due to the upcoming electoral competition on June 12: in the absence of adequate precautionary measures, the exercise of the right-duty to vote of a large part of the electorate would become a bargaining chip to be subjected to conditioning and the intimidation of the mafia power and therefore removed from the democratic principle ".
Thus the Palermo Prosecutor's Office justified the request for arrest of the Fdi candidate to the City Council Francesco Lombardo and of the boss Vincenzo Vella, who ended up in handcuffs yesterday for electoral exchange between political and mafia.
Vella and Lombardo met on 28 May in the fruit and vegetable shop of the boss, who has already been convicted of mafia association three times.
A Trojan placed in the cell phone of the head of the Corso dei Mille picked up their conversation.
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Do we take a few votes here?
", asks Lombardo to Vella." You yes, you personally yes ", replies the boss, free after the cancellation of the last 20-year sentence for a formal defect." Will you collect about twenty votes for me? ", he continues. the candidate of Fdi. "If I go up I'm on the town planning commission.
I'm in private construction, and as soon as there is a problem I jump ", he says, making it clear that he is at the boss's disposal and continues:" Haven't I always made myself available to you, regardless of politics? " take them all of us ", replies Vella.