by Fabio Anselmo*
Have you by any chance noticed that both Mayor Alan Fabbri and Senator Balboni no longer talk about the immigration problem linked to security? They both went on the attack on this issue with which, needless to say, they won the last elections. And not only in Ferrara.
However, their enthusiasm betrayed them, leading them to take contrasting positions: the mayor rejoiced at the idea of building a CPR in the city, considering it an opportunity for Ferrara, while Senator Balboni then hastened to reassure citizens on the fact that that center would be built elsewhere.
Someone initially talked about the Nigerian mafia, a concept on which, in the last elections, he had particularly insisted, generalizing the problem and creating the suggestion that all immigrants of that origin were criminals and drug dealers. The equation is clear: Nigerian immigrants = criminal drug dealers.
Now he has an expression of the Nigerian community on his list.
While Senator Balboni, until recently very active on local issues and very present on electoral posters, remains silent, Alan Fabbri starts again with his campaign, abandoning the topic and clearly stating that he wants to continue with government action and change of the city started”.
But if he just has to continue what he’s doing, why does he change team and leave the League? Maybe he isn’t so satisfied with the work of his almighty multiple councillor, a Salvinian Northern League member, Nicola Lodi?
Alan Fabbri declares himself anti-fascist (but isn’t he in the same party as Vannacci?) while Balboni is not.
But what everyone knows perfectly well is that the era of easy and successful propaganda on the skin of immigrants is over. Why?
Because we desperately need it for our companies, our economy and ourselves. The Ferrara population ages at the speed of light. More than in the rest of the country.
The so-called ‘useful range’, i.e. those capable of working, is restricted to a range that sees us in 101st place in the Sole 24 Ore ranking.
The pages of our local newspapers are occupied almost daily with appeals from various sectors of the economy asking for help in solving the problem of the lack of manpower.
“They nominated a strange guy,” a well-known nationally known politician said of me. Well, this strange candidate first met trade associations and trade unions.
The chorus was unanimous. There is a shortage of workers. Workers guaranteed all the rights provided by our laws, including homes. These are the exact words said from all sides.
We already have some but they are not enough. Today’s news describes the explosion of a social emergency whose tension is becoming increasingly palpable. Thanks to the infamous Cutro decree, due to the directives of the Ministry of the Interior, hundreds of families, who have been perfectly integrated into our territory for years and years, risk being deported to the places of origin from which they fled. These are workers trained and hired with employment contracts in accordance with the law. Many even on a permanent basis.
“Hundreds of lives hanging on appeals – a suspension to be able to hope”, “There is no pass for work”… Can someone from the majority, instead of trumpeting inaugurations of properties or construction sites destined to remain empty, please strike a blow? Maybe even Senator Balboni with a reassuring phone call to his minister Piantedosi to then be able to triumphantly announce the solution to a dramatically serious problem on both an economic and social level. It would be welcome.
This would allow all of us to be able to appreciate with a more serene mind the fantastic, excellently packaged videos with the great mayor flying above all of us while the deputy wanders everywhere with his iconic Apecar.
*centre-left mayoral candidate in Ferrara
