“The wet powders of the Decaro Administration claim another victim. The most illustrious. We hope for the last one. Saint Nicholas. The celebration of the city’s patron saint, in fact, this year was deprived of the traditional rite of fireworks, which had been renewed continuously for 40 years”. Thus in a note Forza Italia Bari protests against “the inefficiency of a centre-left city government which proves incapable even of organizing a fireworks display. And he asks the reasons why such a beautiful, important, loved and awaited tradition by hundreds of thousands of citizens and tourists has flopped this year”, continues the note.
«The mayor explains what happened – declares Giuseppe Carrieri, deputy coordinator of Forza Italia Bari -. We want to know if he was aware of the mix-up. And whether this arose, as it seems, from the inability, improvisation or neglect of the municipal administrative machine, which should support the organizing committee and coordinate with it. Was there a bureaucratic, administrative or economic problem? What did the mayor do to fix it? And, if the problem was economic, why Decaro, to avoid this humiliation for the City of Bari, did not pay the bill to the Emotion Fireworks company of Gioia del Colle, even out of his own pocket, which the organizers, according to press rumors , wouldn’t they have paid?”.
«In the absence of well-founded justifications – concludes Carrieri – we will hold the mayor and the centre-left council directly responsible for this latest failure. In which case, at least their apologies would be desirable for the damage caused to the people of Bari, for interrupting a tradition and a show organized for over 40 years.”
