“Senator Occhiuto, who until now had never failed to make known his appreciation of the current municipal council for its continuity with the one he led, now attacks his successor, accusing him of a lack of vision and for the degradation of the city ” – so it is written in a note signed by the members of the PD of the Federation of Cosenza Sergio De Simone, Alessandro Grandinetti, Saverio Carlo Greco and Giacomo Mancini.
“And to say that in these three years the administration in office, unlike what it had promised during the electoral campaign, had been more than tender towards the previous experience: the accounting books of the financial mess which caused the collapse were never brought to the ordinary and accounting judiciary. The president of the auditors he has been reconfirmed in his fundamental role by this same administration”.
“For more than a year the CEO of AMACO he was kept in his place and would have remained there if the Public Prosecutor of the Cosenza Prosecutor’s Office had not intervened to wake the current mayor and his administration from their soporific sleep, realizing the comatose and bankrupt state of the company. We do not believe, however, that Occhiuto’s stance today could represent a break in the political continuity that many centre-left voters are suffering and criticising”.
“Of course, it is clear that the Caruso administration has demonstrated in three years lack of vision with respect to the development of the city. However, it is funny that the criticism is formulated by Senator Occhiuto. In fact, the limits of vision demonstrated by the two Occhiuto administrations are well imprinted in the memory of the people of Cosenza”.
“The people of Cosenza remember well the municipalist closure of the city after decades of effective and productive collaborations for the creation of the urban area, one of the most important in the South, between the three municipalities of Cosenza, Rende and Castrolibero. The PSC rejected by the Region in which the housing volumes were moved from the hamlets to the center of a city now saturated with civilian homes and experiencing a sharp demographic decline”.
“There systematic destruction of Viale Giacomo Mancini with its closure causing the explosion of city traffic and the impossibility of reaching the city center. Not to mention the guilty responsibilities regarding the delays in the construction of the hospital, an infrastructure necessary for the citizens, not only for the citizens of Cosenza, but for those of the entire province”.
“And speaking of Planetary let’s avoid reaching the ridiculous. And for more than ten years the Planetarium, another work inherited from the Mancini family, has been guiltily abandoned to the deterioration of time. And certainly the glittering inaugurations were not enough and are enough to make available to the citizens of Cosenza and not only to them, a structure that many, not only in Calabria, envy us. Just as it is evident that for three years the Caruso administration has not developed an idea for managing either the planetarium, or even the many cultural principalsi nor le sports facilities present in the city and publicly owned”.
“We fear, however, that Senator Occhiuto’s words do not mark the start of a healthy democratic dialectic between forces that have a different vision. Because the continuity that exists between the center-right and this center-left that governs the city is completely evident. However, it would be desirable for the good of Cosenza that the discussion is not centered on sterile controversies, but on the search for solutions that the different institutional levels, although of different political affiliation, should be able to find in the interest of the community”.
“And this is why we have been urging our party, the PD, to resume the initiative and dialogue with militants, members and voters, but above all with the city to reflect together on the future of Cosenza and its urban area starting from the great question of the single city. On this ground we must challenge a center-right responsible for the financial collapse that is causing so much damage to the pockets of those people from Cosenza who pay taxes and who are increasingly being squeezed like lemons”.
“Our constant action to stimulate and criticize the Caruso administration, due to the absence of an overall vision of the capital city of the largest and most productive province of Calabria and of the delays inherited and accumulated by the previous centre-right councils, was born – concludes the note – from the concern that administrative inertia and time could politically and administratively relegitimize those who have great responsibility for the current situation of degradation of the city”.
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