“The Biancheri administration once again bows to the diktats of the plenipotentiary Mayor of Imperia, President of the Province and Commissioner of the Scajola water supply”. This is how Robert Von Hackwitz, candidate in the next elections in ‘Common Project’, intervenes.
“It bowed – he continues – accepting the risk of voting on a practice that did not have a mandatory or urgent nature, as provided for by article 38, paragraph 5 of the Consolidated Law on Local Authorities for the municipal councils convened after the publication of the decree of calling of election rallies. An apparently technical practice which concerned the modification of the Rivieracqua statute and the shareholders’ agreements, modifications, however, aimed at the privatization of the entirely public company that manages the integrated water service in the Province. Together with many other people I have been fighting for public water since 2008, a fight that involved the collection of 2 million signatures to call a referendum to repeal the obligation to privatize the water service, then won in June 2011 with Bulgarian percentages, a fight that led us to organize almost twenty demonstrations in front of the Hall of Mayors in the Province of Imperia, where the water ATO met in 2012-2013-2014 to guarantee respect for the referendum result in the Province and to monitor, a fight that is continued with the request that our vote (and that of 26,000,000 other Italians) be respected, a struggle that led us to discuss several times with the top management of the In House Rivieracqua company and to discuss with Mayors, Councilors, Managers and officials public”.
“Well all this was definitively swept away – he ends – last night in the City Council in Sanremo where the compact majority led by Mayor Biancheri voted in favor of the practice handing Rivieracqua over to the private sector. Only councilor Artioli, as on other occasions, has maintained his unwavering commitment in favor of public water, he should be given credit for this and thanked. But the battle is not over until it is over: there are still other ways forward to stop this privatization process; certainly these are complicated paths, made up of appeals to different judiciaries, study of documentation, budgets and sentences but we don’t give up. With Progetto Comune we will continue the battle for public water without a shadow of a doubt.”
