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Elena Chiorino on Monday resigned as
a councillor in the centre-right Piedmont regional government
after last week stepping down as deputy governor over her
involvement in a Rome restaurant owned by the daughter of the
convicted frontman for Rome's top Neaplitan Camorra boss, an
affair that led to the resignation of Justice Undersecretary
Andrea Delmastro Delle Vedove, Chiorino's fellow partner in the
18-year-old woman's steakhouse.
Chiorino said she was stepping down from the second post too for
the good of Piedmont, its centre-right majority and her Brothers
of Italy (FdI) party, the same part as Delmastro and Premier
Giorgia Meloni.
"I have communicated to the president," she explained, "my
decision to tender my irrevocable resignation. It's a choice I'm
making out of a sense of responsibility and for the good of the
Piedmont Region, the center-right majority, and my party,
Brothers of Italy.
"I'm a decent person," she added, "and I cannot accept that the
developments in an investigation that concerns third parties,
and not myself, be exploited."
Other FdI regional officials are under pressure to quit after
being co-partners in the steakhouse owned by Miriam Caroccia,
daughter of Mauro Caroccia, the main front man for Camorra boss
Michele Senese.
Chiorino is the work and company crisis pointwoman for Meloni's
FdI party.
Delmastro is a top member of FdI.
The restaurant partnership was set up in 2024 in the Piedmontese
city of Biella, where Delmastro and Chiorino are from.
Earlier Monday it emerged that Caroccia father and daughter are
under fresh investigation, and that Delmastro had divested
himself of his stake in the steakhouse in his most recent
parliamentary assets statement.
Delmastro and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio's Chief
of Staff Giusi Bartolozzi last Tuesday resigned after becoming
embroiled in separate furores seen as damaging the government
campaign to win a referendum on Nordio's Constitutional reform
of the justice system, which the government went on to lose in
Meloni's first major setback since her election in 2022.
Bartolozzi was heavily criticised in the campaign for the
referendum after saying that the judiciary were a firing squad
that had to be eliminated, a remark seen as revealing the true
goal of the reform and from which she had to embarrassingly
climb down.
Daniela Santanchè resigned as Italy's tourism minister on
Wednesday, almost 24 hours after Premier Meloni had said she
should go amid multiple criminal probes relating to the
minister's business interests.
The premier is reportedly seeking to purge FdI and her executive
of potentially problematic figures in view of the next general
election, with the parliamentary term set to end next year,
after she suffered her first major setback since becoming
premier with defeat in Sunday and Monday's referendum on the
government's
justice-system reform.
Another casualty has been maurizio Gasparri, who was replaced as
Senate whip for the centre-right post Berlusconi Forza Italia
(FI) party by Stefanis Craxi, daughter of the late Socialist
premier Bettino Craxi, who died in exile from Italian justice
after a conviction in the Bribesville scandals, of which he was
the most prominent victim.
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