The centre-left candidate in the Piedmont regional elections, Gianna Pentenerosharpens the weapons of controversy and goes on the attack on policies in support of families and anti-abortion of the Cirio council. In particular, those promoted by the right-wing champion Maurizio Marrone, Welfare councilor and exponent of Fratelli d’Italia. «I don’t think the Marrone bonus can determine a woman’s choice to have a family, due to the way it is given. We are in the giving of money, without the construction of a project. We should analyze what happens to those women after the bonus”, underlines the challenger of the outgoing governor.
For Pentenero, «a bonus of 600 euros given extemporaneously does not help, while a family project (like the one that the candidate promises to want to set up, ed.) instead means uniting everything that we can put in place to ensure that women choose to have children and to raise the family.” In fact, the centre-left’s program aims to give «support to early childhood services, employment support and support also to those families who find themselves with elderly people at home. Because if you have elderly people you now have to make a choice: “Do I care for the elderly or have children?».
The reply from Marrone, the creator of the projects they envisage, is not long in coming the entry into hospitals and public clinics of anti-abortion associations. «Pentenero doesn’t know what he’s talking about because the objective numbers disprove his rambling accusations. With the Vita Nascente fund in one year 478 mothers were helped with basic necessities but also services such as nurseries, nurseries and training up to the third year of age of children, with the Scelta Sociale voucher there are 600 euros every month for assistance to the elderly and disabled, who in just one year are already arriving in the pockets of 7 thousand Piedmontese families with direct transfer or tuition discounts. Concrete results of social support for the weakest – counterattacks the FdI exponent – which we do not remember at the time of his councilorship with Chiamparino”.
Also yesterday Pentenero participated in the evening of presentation of Antonella Parigi’s candidacy for the European elections at Hiroshima Mon Amour, with whom they had been colleagues in the Chiamparino council. «The fight for gender equality» is one of the main themes of the proposal launched by the founder of the Circolo dei Lettori. A further focus from the centre-left on the issues that are closest to the hearts of female voters. «A society capable of overcoming inequalities by valuing women is a question of equity, but also of development».
