Partygate and sexual harassment, Antonio Fabbri (L’Informazione): “In San Marino they are all still in their place”
Partygate and harassment… Where politicians resign. Also on the Monte there was the April 1st party in full lockdown. Even on Monte the allegations of harassment of the former Regent … but all are still in their place
ANTONIO FABBRI – Partygate during the lockdown due to Covid-19 and, more recently, a sexual harassment scandal. It is not San Marino, even if it might seem given the events of the last two years. It is the United Kingdom where the scandals first led to about fifty resignations among ministries, deputy ministers and political figures with leading positions, and yesterday the missions of Boris Johnson, who left the leadership of the British Conservative, while he will remain prime minister until October. “I’m leaving, but I would not have wanted to”, he declared, confirming however that he wanted to remain at the head of the government until the election of a successor at the helm of the Tories scheduled for October, in fact. (…)
A completely different matter in San Marino, where the political class has also been the protagonist of equally serious and completely similar events. Before the festival of April 1, 2021, with the presence of councilors, the Secretary of State for Health and even the newly installed Captain Regent in whose honor the toast was organized. Three councilors were also fined according to the rules they adopted by ratifying the Covid decrees. The others, for the sake of their country and a little evidently out of awe, have escaped the fine. But apart from the little convinced move of the resignations of two councilors, given instead to the Council to their own movement that rejected them, does it appear to anyone that something has happened to safeguard the credibility of the institutions and politics? Nothing. (…)
Even more the unfortunate and indecent episode of the Regent accused of having harassed an employee of the Institutional Secretariat by lowering her underwear in a room of the institutional headquarters of the Public Palace. Nothing has happened in this matter either, at least on the political level, on the judicial level we will see. (…)
Article taken from The Information of San Marino