“After the competitions for managers, the changes of use of properties and other amenities, toponymy also bursts into the electoral campaign and in the most circus-like way possible. And yes, because the Mayor, after five years and one month after the vote, be careful, decides to install none other than the commission to provide answers to the requests for naming the streets”. This is what the coalition note reports for Pasqualina Straface Mayor.
“Here is another of his last minute priorities, perhaps overlooked in the revolutionary phase, that of ordinary administration. In fact, what would be the urgency of the practice in question, if not the approaching day of the vote? After the purchase at pharaonic prices of dilapidated properties sold by its great voters, the persecutions and retaliations against non-aligned municipal employees, the favors to friendly associations and the gifts of all sorts that abound in public and hidden determinations, it has now lost itself any shame!”.
“For the coalition in support of Pasqualina Straface Mayor we are faced with yet another blatant confirmation of the programmatic inability and total absence of government vision of a Mayor and a Council that for five consecutive years and until the last day of ordinary administration, continue to make improvisation the key to understanding their survival, political, so to speak”.
“And if, on the one hand, programming and planning were the true eloquent fugitives in the demagogic and populist five-year period of this pile-up to power, on the other, the First Citizen, in perfect solitude and as a movementist autarch, in this start of electoral campaign continues relentlessly to preach, as if at the head of a sect, the alleged diversity of himself and his faithful, compared to the evil that would be personified by those who have decided, therefore erring in coherence and unity, to support Pasqualina Straface all together. What delirium and what presumption!
“Confront, if you are capable and have it, about the contents. Talk about plans if you can. Explain just one of the unlikely results that the third largest city in Calabria expected and would have expected from a municipal administration that has collected in these 5 years tens and tens and tens of millions of euros in documented state transfers of which there is no evidence more track worthy of being narrated and boasted. Just waste.”
“So instead of pretending to think, with an urgency that still exists after five years, of the names of the streets that have otherwise been left without a minimum of signage worthy of the name and adequate to the need to strengthen the merger; instead of pretending to think, with an urgency that no longer exists a few days after the vote, of a beach plan which we have attempted to transform into a further customer tool; instead of entrusting tasks for railings in squares and monuments that he has never dealt with until today in historic centers abandoned to their fate”.
“Instead of continuing to squander rivers of public money by giving up one’s own idea and strategy for the tourism development of the Corigliano-Rossano destination; instead of lingering even talking about giant monuments like the Patire, impersonating the role of the obligatory guest in events that appear tailor-made and of which it would be interesting to know how much they cost the community”.
“Finally, instead of continuing to abuse the function of mayor to carry out electoral propaganda with public tools and resources intended instead for institutional communication, which up to now has been trampled upon in its purpose as a source of administrative transparency, the Mayor, the Council and the majority have the decency to abstain from these continuous attempts to override and mortgage a future that does not belong to them, respecting not only laws and legality but also the common sense and intelligence of all and finding the face and the words to explain to the citizens what they have done with the municipal coffers and what they would like to do to fix it.”
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