The “last supper” arrived a week late last Thursday: Di Piero and his apostles around a table in Villa Elena to celebrate – posthumously – Easter in Sulmona, so full of people and successes that for a while ‘ had raised hopes for a better future for the city. And instead: a joke about the Nomadi concert, or rather about their age and recording age, was enough to unleash hell. Without waiting for “three”. Elio Accardo, Tassoni’s former manager, took it badly: pouring out fiery words and insults on the diners which, to tell the truth, were not expected to come from his apparent aplomb. Obviously it wasn’t just the Nomads who triggered yet another municipal crisis, but a series of differences of views on administrative management that smoldered under the ashes for over four months. Elio Accardo, on the other hand, was not just any appointment in the council: his name was already in pole before we went to the polls and the Liberamente Sulmona coalition had actually been built around his candidacy for mayor, before he decided to refuse and leave the match lit in the hands of Gianfranco Di Piero. Enough to understand that his entry into the council was not exactly an affectionate embrace, rather an attempt to reconstruct a path. It was bad, it could be worse, “it could rain” – to quote the doctor Frankenstein –, because Accardo’s is not the only cloud gathering over Palazzo San Francesco. Diversity of views on many issues, starting from the need to free Piazza Garibaldi from cars, for example, there are also among other councilors in the council, while in April now well underway we continue to work in twelfths because the budget has not yet been approved and many, too many, public works remain suspended waiting for who knows what. The administrative machine does not help in this and indeed in Palazzo San Francesco it is evident that there is a lack of direction from an administrative point of view, with the managers who, with the necessary exceptions, go about their own business, especially since the political directions, which they should stick to, are few, confused and sometimes in conflict with each other. The latest example is the mess of the fire station to be located in Via XXV Aprile: a policy resolution voted across the board by the majority and the Brothers of Italy, then withdrawn from the list of points to be submitted to the next city council.
In a city where commissions and even city councils have become rare commodities, where parties have disappeared, where political positions are often the whims or interests of individuals. Where essentially the overall vision was lost. This is why Accardo’s resignation could be a detonator, not because it is capable of triggering a political crisis, but because it exposes the absence of politics. Which, moreover, in Sulmona, was transformed into a surgical operation of pieces put together at random, convinced that everything “can be done”. Like it was a Frankenstein experiment.
