“So the morality and legality operation from the Apulian regional council essentially ends with the release of the undersigned. This is the signal of discontinuity that we want to convey. I reply with a smile». This was stated in a note by the former regional councilor for the Environment, Anna Grazia Maraschioat altitude Italian leftexcluded from the Regional Council after mini reshuffle wanted by the president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano.
In his place, the governor appointed the lawyer Serena Triggiani. They also joined the council Viviana Matrangolawith the delegation to Legality and Culture, e Debora Ciliento to Transport.
Maraschio thanks «the hundreds of people, administrators, citizens who are writing to me certificates of solidaritymessages of indignation and pure bewilderment” and announces that he will not accept «the position within President Emiliano’s staffa hypothesis that was put forward to me and which I thank for the offer.”
Maraschio highlights that «between floating and sailing I have always chosen the second option in my life, with the wind at your back and free from conditioning. Everything I achieved – continues the former councilor – was thanks to work culture, the only one that permeates me and to which I respond. The same culture that I brought to the department that I was honored to lead, made up of professionals that I would like to thank, together with my technical staff who are always at my side and the managers and officials who followed my vision. politics. I don’t deny anything and I won’t deny that they were beautiful, intense years, full of satisfaction but also hard. I often had to struggle alone, feeling like a white fly».
In this whole affair, Maraschio underlines, «there is only one aspect that leaves a bad taste in my mouth: the abrupt interruption of a programming and planning process of the departmentwhich ranged from environmental and climate protection measures to the establishment of a new housing policy that considered not only houses but also people and their well-being. An impressive amount of measures, of revolutionary policies, which these lines would not be enough to list. When a path like this is interrupted, the risk is that the benefit could be for very few and the damage for many, many Apulian citizens. But I also have another conviction: whoever sows well reaps the right ones and the sprouts will not be long in coming», he concludes.
Bavaro (Italian Left): «We are in a farce»
«We’re in a farce. After the arrests and the scandals, after the requests for zeroing and to open a debate on the moral question, Michele Emiliano thinks well of removing Anna Grazia Maraschio from the regional council. I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again: evidently The Italian left is uncomfortable and is paying the price for its freedom». To make things worse is the head of the Southern Italian Left, Nico Bavaro.
«At this point – he continues – I would like to understand what does Elly Schlein think of it, who with Nicola Fratoianni had asked for an in-depth reflection on Puglia. Are you satisfied with Emiliano’s decisions?
Bavaro sees in it «a clear and clear plan for marginalize the only critical voice of the majority and I can reconstruct the stages of the story. In fact, in about a year, Emiliano took away Anna Grazia Maraschio’s powers over urban planning (house plan, new buildings…), to give them to a regional councilor elected in Forza Italia and then transferred to his civic [Lacatena, ndr]; after a few months, with the complicity of the M5S they removed support from the former mayor of Brindisi, Riccardo Rossi, without any reason, then losing the elections to the right. A few more months pass and his civic body, Con – concludes Bavaro – publicly asks for the resignation of Maraschio, who had “dared” to demand that the electricity production plants were not located in the fields or on the coasts, but in industrial areas, on the roofs of buildings and beyond 12 miles from the coast.”
