Taranto, the mayor of the Democratic Party Rinaldo Melucci falls: 17 councilors resign to dissolve the city council early
Seventeen of the 32 municipal councilors of Taranto presented their irrevocable resignations to the protocol office of the municipal assembly.
The resignations are aimed at the early dissolution of the City Council. Among the 17 signatories, there are members of the opposition but also representatives of the center-left majority of the current municipal administration led by the mayor Rinaldo Melucci of the Democratic Party.
Among the signatories, figure Massimiliano Stellato, municipal and regional councilor of Puglia, expression of a centrist movement that supports the executive in office and that has also received positions. In Taranto the elections are scheduled for next year.
Melucci was elected in June 2017 and in the last few weeks he has proceeded to a reshuffle of the council. The president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, and the regional secretary of the Pd Puglia, Marco Lacarra, had already expressed themselves in favor of Melucci’s re-nomination for a second term.
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