Debora Serracchiani, deputy
secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), said Monday that the
situation in Sicily involving regional Governor Rosario Crocetta
is "untenable".
She spoke one day after Crocetta insisted he would not
resign over a case involving a reported wiretap that he was has
been created by his enemies, including the Mafia.
"I will not resign, I am a fighter," said Crocetta.
The situation involves an alleged wiretap where Crocetta
was told by his doctor that Lucia Borsellino - daughter of slain
anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino - should meet the same
fate as her father.
However, Friday prosecutors in Palermo said they had no
record of such a wiretap.
Still, Crocetta initially suspended himself from office
over the affair.
Serracchiani, in an interview with newspaper La Repubblica,
said that despite concerns of a potential election defeat for
the PD should Crocetta resign, it would be preferable to
"political agony" caused by inaction.
"This would be a political agony the Democratic Party
cannot afford," she said.
Weekly magazine L'Espresso last week reported that, in the
wiretap, Crocetta stayed silent after his doctor, Matteo Tutino,
made his comments about Lucia Borsellino.
Lucia Borsellino, who father was killed by the Mafia in
1992 soon after his colleague Giovanni Falcone, recently quit as
Sicilian executive health councillor.
Crocetta said he has no recollection of hearing Tutino say
anything of the sort and argues he is the victim of a smear
campaign.
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