There are seven in total objections raised against Alessandra Todde in the report of the Regional Electoral Guarantee Board at the Court of Appeal of Cagliari , which has now sent the documents to the regional council for the provision of "dismissal" from office of the governor of Sardinia, who - for her part - says she is "calm" and "ready to move forward" .
Here is the detail:
- 1) «... The candidate for the office of president has sent via certified email the forms for the declaration of expenses and the financial statement published on the website of the Secretariat of the Regional Electoral Guarantee Board prepared for the expenses incurred by individual candidates in which she has declared, in relation to the electoral campaign, to have incurred expenses, as per the attached financial statement, for a total of €90,629.98 and to have received contributions and/or services, as per the attached declaration, for €90,670.01 ; the said forms appear to be signed only by the aforementioned and, to them, she has attached a financial statement of electoral expenses and sources of financing that appear to be supported by a committee called “Electoral Committee of the M5S for the election of the president of the Sardinia region” which, as per the accompanying letter, appears to have been sent to the Court of Auditors as a financial statement of the electoral expenses of the movement/party. This method does not allow us to clarify whether the expenses indicated in the documents filed relate to the expenses of the individual candidate for the office of president or to the electoral campaign of the candidates for the office of Councilor supported by the movement" .
- Again, in section 2, Todde is accused of the lack (deemed "irremediable" and "irremediable") of a nominated agent : "The agent does not appear to have been nominated, whose nomination must be considered mandatory pursuant to article 7, paragraph 3 of law 515/1993 as referred to in article 3, paragraph 1 of the Sardinia regional law number 1/1994: the candidate for the office of president filled out the forms declaring that she had received contributions and/or services for €90,670.01 but did not nominate the agent".
- 3) «...It does not appear – writes the Panel in the third point – that a current account dedicated exclusively to the collection of funds pursuant to article 7, paragraph 4, of law 515/1993 as referred to in article 3, paragraph 1, of the Sardinian regional law number 1/1994...».
- 4) «...The certification and signature of the financial statement by the agent who should have been appointed is not evident – the document continues – (…): the candidate for the position of president declared in the expenditure declaration and financial statement forms as filed that she had received contributions and/or services amounting to Euro 90,670.01 but, not having appointed an agent, she failed to certify the truthfulness of the financial statement in relation to the amount of the income...» .
- 5) «...The candidate for the office of president has produced a “List of movements” of a current account (...) and not a bank statement showing the name of the current account used...».
- 6) «... The names of the subjects who provided the financing for the electoral campaign do not appear in the list of bank movements...», as required by the Law.
- 7) «...It is not clear which current account the sums indicated in the list of Paypal transactions produced by the candidate were paid into ...», again as required by the Law.
Todde is also charged with an invoice of 153.16 euros for Enel expenses for the election campaign headquarters rented in Cagliari in via Sonnino, present in his "tax drawer", but - writes the Committee - "never filed" .
After having reported and detailed the various disputes, the Panel concludes by ordering "the payment of a sum of €40,000 as an administrative penalty to the Revenue Agency within 30 days" and ordering "the transmission of this order/injunction to the President of the Regional Council for what is within his competence in order to adopt the measure for the removal of Todde Alessandra from the office of President of the Sardinia Region, as well as to the Public Prosecutor's Office, given the anomalies found".
(Unioneonline/lf)