Ferranti (Fi) to mayor Bandecchi: “from the risk of relegation to the projects that will fail, to the announcements that have fallen flat, it’s your fault. I’m writing to you because you’re making a fuss in the city council”

This is the text of an open letter that the Forza Italia municipal councilor sends to the mayor of Terni Stefano Bandecchi.

“I am writing to you – specifies councilor Ferranti – because in the city council you are making a fuss, you do not allow, between interruptions and insults, a discussion useful to the public interest”.

There are many things that the Forzista councilor accuses the mayor: from the risk of relegation of Ternana, to the “immobilized and, in fact, unfeasible” stadium-clinic project, to the failure to build the sports centre, from the administration’s announcements which fell on deaf ears, to the competitions suspended, due to the failure of the political project.

Ferranti therefore advises Bandecchi “to go back to being a successful entrepreneur”

BY FRANCESCO FERRANTI

Losing Serie B for our city would be yet another bad blow. The image and prestige deriving from such a prestigious championship at a national and European level would be greatly affected, the relative economic impact would be lost and, above all, from a sentimental point of view it would be a blow to the hearts of the people of Terni that would be difficult to absorb.

I believe I am not wrong in fearing that this relegation would put a tombstone on the significant business projects that revolve around the sports club.

I am referring to the Stadium/Clinic and the sports center which has been talked about for about 10 years, the so-called Ternanello.

It must be clear to the city and to every citizen of Terni that all these missed objectives and the damage resulting from relegation have a top manager, namely the entrepreneur and mayor Stefano Bandecchi.

It is useless for the latter to respond to the fans on social media that he left Ternana because they no longer wanted him, trying, as he usually does and as he does in the city council, to throw them into confusion and muddy the waters.

I therefore turn to the mayor and even more to the man, to ask him to assume his responsibilities and draw the necessary consequences.

“Dear Bandecchi, you had to sell Ternana in a hurry to a buyer who, despite being an honest man, did not and does not have the adequate financial resources to maintain the Serie B, much less develop important projects such as a stadium of 41 million euros, and this happened because the law of the Italian state does not allow you as mayor to be the holder of the agreement for the stadium.

You knew it before because the law had existed for some time but you still decided to be mayor, thus selling Ternana Calcio but maintaining ownership of the area where the private clinic should be built, also in this case putting into effect those conflicts of law which makes the project immobilized and, in fact, unfeasible, unless the area is immediately sold to Ternana Calcio or to third parties.

In the same way, the administrative action of your council is full of contradictions, of announcements that have fallen into naught, of withdrawn administrative acts and of suspended public competitions or of initiatives such as those of private vigilantes which have not brought about any improvement in the level of safety and public order of the city.

You yourself demonstrated this by asking the prefecture to activate the “safe streets” operation in Terni. All this because no one can do anything alone and you have chosen as your team all people who are certainly good but have no political and administrative experience.

Finally, dear Mayor, there is the question of your political project party, Popular Alternative, with which you had to conquer Terni, Trento, Perugia, Umbria, Europe and then the national government. Instead you are withdrawing the candidates for mayor everywhere, starting from Perugia (where Baiocco will run without the AP symbol), and you are not even able to present the list to the European elections because perhaps by listening to incorrect legal opinions you have exposed yourself to the risk of presenting a list without the signatures required by law.

In short, dear Mayor, you are certainly a good entrepreneur, you have created an important economic reality, but not everyone like Berlusconi comes first in everything they do and here it is clear that all the projects that have stimulated the expectations of the people of Terni (and tickled their belly) have gone to pieces; that due to your conflicts of interest (barring miracles, which I hope for) Ternana will be relegated to Serie C; that you have not conquered Trento and you will not conquer either Perugia or Umbria and that in central Italy you will not even be able to compete for the European Championships due to your technical and material errors.

Dear Mayor Bandecchi, in the interests of Terni and in the interests of Ternana football which will be able to aim for new exciting seasons, like the last 2020/21 for which you should be given credit, and also to resume and implement those important projects such as the Stadium / Clinics that are also feasible due to your entrepreneurial merits, I believe it is appropriate for you to make the necessary assessments and return to being a successful entrepreneur.

You are more useful to our city and our region in that role than as mayor and political leader.”