Merlon announces own resignation from president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa



The president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, has announced its irrevocable resignation to make given from next the 30 june. Its second and more renewable mandate to the guide of the harbour agency of the capital of Liguria he would not have natural expiration 2016 in February.

Previously Merlon had announced that it would have resigned resignation in case of electoral victory of the wife, Raffaella Paita, current city council member to Infrastructures of the Liguria Region, that is candidated to the presidency of the same Region to the 31 elections that will hold next May.

Merlon had promised that it would have introduced resignation in the hypothesis that the wife had installed herself on the seat of president of the regional agency. Now Merlon has evidently decided otherwise and has specified, through its spokesman, to have "shared with minister Graziano Delrio the modalities and the date of resignation". Merlon has evidenced that "the two months of advance payment allow with the local institutions and the government to activate the procedures of nomination for the successor, having put the port of Genoa to the shelter of an indeterminate commissariamento".

To who it had not comprised the motivations adduced in the past from Merlon for to finish its second term in advance, included the decision which they had observed that a conflict of interest with the charge of the wife was already in existence, the president of the Harbour Authority, restating that in his opinion not sussiste a conflict of interest (he is the president of the Liguria Region, Claudio Burlando, that it has the delegation to the ports and the logistics), has now explained to have taken this decision "in order protect the port of Genoa from dismal political controversies. Anyway - it has emphasized Merlon - it is a coherent choice with the style that me has always marked in carrying out roles in Public Administration".

"I hope - he has continued Merlon - than the competent agencies can now formulate timely the tern of names between which my successor will be chosen". Moreover Merlon has specified that in its letter to the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports Delrio "for the sincere attention and the sharing of the distance" has thanked and that has remembered "the necessity to proceed soon to a substantial reform of the Italian harbour system".