Anselmo: “Fabbri uses public money to make personal communication”

“We start from the assumption that public money cannot be used to carry out personal communication”. This is what Fabio Anselmo thinks is happening in Ferrara. Strong words from the centre-left mayoral candidate who, flanked by all the opposition councilors and the candidate Elajda Kasa, attacks the mayor Alan Fabbri and the entire majority not only for the billboards present throughout the city, but also for the use of the fund reserve to finance activities for which he does not understand the urgency criterion applied. Furthermore, the use of debt as a financing tool for ordinary activities such as installing road signs.

He points out that, among the withdrawals from the reserve fund, “the sums given are all rounded up” which makes him “doubt the purposes”. It’s about funds.”granted with a resolution that assumes urgency and in fact it is so because the elections are imminent”. According to Anselmo, the problem lies not so much in the quality of the expenditure incurred but in the nature of urgency through which approximately 450 thousand euros were withdrawn from the reserve fund, leaving only 200 thousand euros in the coffers. These are funds that cannot be restored before the new council takes office and which should be used to deal with emergency situations.

An example that is given concerns 30 thousand euros given to Lipu. “Because – asks Anselmo – you didn’t think about it before and you have to take them from this fund that puts the city at risk”. The candidate specifies on several occasions that he has nothing against the association but the problem lies in the way in which it was chosen to distribute it. “Your competitor – he says to Alan Fabbri – is wondering why all these sums are being allocated right now, one month before the elections”.

Anselmo’s reference actually goes beyond the withdrawals from the reserve fund and also focuses on the ignition of new debts which in 2023 amounted to 3 million, going from almost 69 to almost 72 million in debt. Money that the opposition has repeatedly denounced as having been misused. It is no coincidence that an example that Anselmo reports concerns “30 thousand euros for road signs”. “We need – he adds – to understand which signage. On the construction sites it actually says Ferrara Rinasce, a well-known logo which has a communication that is part of the personal campaign”.

“We cannot – he continues – confuse the promotion of the council with that of the city” while on the Ferrara Rinasce social page Fabio Anslemo sees “comments from people who look a lot like the Estensi Penguins”. Some of the members of the page had ended up on trial for defamation against the lawyer.

Roberta Fusari (I Civici) asks for “a little respect for the institutions” while Colaiacovo underlines that “administering a city also means having a vision of the future and thinking about the young generations”. In presenting the meeting, the latter explained that one of the themes is to “tell the city and the mayor what the Fabbri council is leaving them with”. “There is no form of planning from the council. If you approve a budget at Christmas and then approve urgent changes without anything having happened, it means that the only urgency is the elections.”

Dario Maresca once again underlines how the 2023 budget “went into a loss” with indicators that suggest a “reversal of course” compared to past years. “If this is the path taken, they will lead us to bankruptcy in a few years” and in any case “they will leave a heavy legacy” to the next administration.

Finally, underlines Maresca on the posters, “it would be interesting to know who finances” considering that he estimates the investment made in a figure between 100 and 200 thousand euros. Reporting is mandatory only from the moment in which the 45 days until the elections start while the electoral posters were put up beforehand so they should not be obliged to do so even if for Maresca it would be a duty “pIt’s a question of transparency.”

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