Sara Guglielmetti Filippo Blengino, The acting secretary of the Italian Radicals resigned, alleging irregularities and opaqueness in the party's management. The details.
Political earthquake: Filippo Blengino resigns
The leadership of Radicali Italiani has been hit by a veritable political earthquake , widening the rift already present within the Radical camp with +Europa. National Secretary Filippo Blengino has tendered his irrevocable resignation, denouncing irregularities and opaqueness in the party's management.
Here is his statement: "This is a deeply painful decision, made in the face of political degeneration and serious irregularities that are preventing the holding of a regular congress. Serious opaqueness in the management of registrations and anomalies are affecting the XXIV Congress. A movement born to fight partycracy has become one of its most grotesque representations.
Transparency is hindered, democratic rules are seen as a hindrance, and dissent is treated as an enemy.”
Political upheaval: Blengino resigns: "It's a cult."
Filippo Blengino has therefore resigned, also making very serious accusations, in particular against the movement's president Matteo Hallissey, who is accused of "having a proprietary conception of the party which has now become hostage to a political sect in which personal loyalty prevails over competence and the statutory bodies are reduced to instruments for ratifying decisions taken elsewhere".
On his Facebook page, Blengino published his speech, in which he stigmatized the turning point in political action: “We have transformed our method of political struggle into an obsessive, compulsive, and stubborn search for the enemy, the person to be annihilated, rather than the adversary, nor the person with whom to dialogue, to engage in conflict. And this is a fundamental difference between a nonviolent method and a method that has nothing to do with nonviolent politics. We don't fight privileges, we don't fight laws, the political system that grants those privileges, but we fight individuals; the enemy becomes the individual, the systematic personalization of conflict. But that's not all: "In recent months I have been subjected to personal political pressure, insults and intimidating behaviour when faced with the prospect of wanting to distance myself from this system.Two or three weeks ago, I denied a refund for a digital platform whose subscription expires after the congress. Therefore, as secretary and legal representative of the party, I decided not to renew it precisely because the congress was taking place. The result of this action was two people being arrested outside my home, and then there were veiled death threats. Blengino ha anche segnalato irregolarità nelle campagne di piazza e nella gestione economica del partito, citando intimidazioni ricevute da altri militanti per aver denunciato l’assenza di autenticatori ai banchetti: “Some of those signatures were collected irregularly..“. And he also added that: “In the last two national committees, our treasurer, Patrizia De Grazia, gave false treasury note numbers", he revealed in reference to the costs of the Stop Ethical Tax campaign.