The Council takes its leave, approving the 2023 final balance sheet. Bellelli and Carpi’s place in the world. Mariella Lugli’s numbers Current affairs

“At the beginning of my mandate I asked myself what place Carpi would have in the world”, said the mayor Alberto Bellelli closing his farewell speech on the occasion of the last municipal council of the administrative five-year period 2019-2024, called to also discuss the numerical data of the 2023 final balance. The response given is that of having managed to create a new administrative entity that it has one hundred thousand inhabitants, with a university headquarters and a project for a new hospital as well as having a unitary plan tool such as the Pug for planning entrepreneurial investments: “And all this is due to our ability to read the territory beyond its own borders – he said –, of the desire to be together. This is our place in the world, because in a still rather undefined institutional framework, as demonstrated by the state of the provincial administrations, if there is a future for Italy it passes through municipalities that know how to read each other differently”. Previously Bellelli had drawn up a final summary of the mandate rather than that of the last financial year, recalling the fundamental stages: the profound mark left by Covid, the complex management of the Pnrr in the post-pandemic period, the five years of stability of the accounts inherited from the past, which has now become also a dynamic stability by virtue of European funds, the growth of the population, the large investments from the hospital to the university with the attention paid to territorial medicine with the Community House and the imminent opening of the Osco, the synergies found with the Cr Carpi Foundation. And, precisely, the Union and the evolution that led Carpi to become closely linked to it, obtaining with the first large-area Pug and with the homogeneity of the fiscal maneuvers of the four municipalities policies suitable for a dimension of territorial government that does not it’s more like before. follows