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.
