It is the last municipal council of the Palazzo Vecchio legislature. And there will be no shortage of controversy, not only because of the pre-election climate, but because we will talk about Tari and its increase. Of 3.2% for 2024 and 5.5% in 2025, or +8.7% in two years.
Political ruptures and turning points
Last meeting of a council that has seen many changes in these five years, with councilors who have changed their coat, a couple of exits and the majority of the group breaking up Democratic Florence which first emerged from the Democratic Party and then supported Nardella and is made up of three councilors who recognize themselves in the former councilor and candidate for mayor, Cecilia Del Re.
But this was not the only change compared to the 2019 vote, on the contrary.
Dario Nardella’s second legislature has seen the birth of the Italia Viva groupformed by a former Pd (Barbara Fellca) and former Lista Nardella (Mimma Dardano), even before the Central Group, formed by the former Northern League member Emanuele Cocollini and the independent centre-right mayoral candidate Uberto Bocci. And from League – which in 2019 had 6 councilors and was the first opposition party – the councilors Andrea Asciuti also left, and more recently, Michela Monaco, expelled from the party, both of whom went to the Mixed Group.
Brothers of Italy gained a councilor, Iacopo Cellai, elected for Forza Italia (only Mario Razzanelli remained in the chamber for the Azzurri), who joined the group leader Alessandro Draghi, while no changes affected M5Swith the two elected Roberto De Blasi (who was the candidate for mayor) and Lorenzo Masi e Left Joint Project with Antonella Bundu (mayoral candidate) and Dmitrij Palagi.
The latest shock came with the resignation of the PD councilor at the beginning of March, Francesco Pastorelliafter the accusation of incompatibility for a position as a lawyer for di Casa spa, a subsidiary of Palazzo Vecchio, which was replaced by Susanna Della Felice, lawyer.
The last appeal
And this morning, at 9 am, for the last time there will be the roll call, the hymns will play, and then there will be the debate, with some resolutions on off-balance sheet debts and above all two resolutions on the TARI, with the determination of the distribution of the load tariff between domestic and non-domestic users and tariffs.
