Marcello De Vito, former president
of the Rome city council assembly and a member of the 5-Star
Movement (M5S), who was arrested by Carabinieri police in March,
lamented Wednesday that he should not have been expelled from
the party.
Last month, after the announcement of his arrest in relation
to a probe into AS Roma's project to build a new stadium in the
city and another project, Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry
Minister Luigi Di Maio had said De Vito was being ejected from
his M5S party.
De Vito noted that an online vote had been held when Deputy
Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was put
under investigation in relation to his refusal to allow migrants
to disembark from a Coast Guard ship's, the issue had been put
to an online vote.
He added that ''our code of ethics calls for the expulsion
from M5S only in the case of a party member being found guilty
and not according to questionable interpretations depending on
the case or, worse, the decision of our leaders,'' he wrote in
part of a letter sent from jail to Rome mayor Virginia Raggi.
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