Piacenza lives hectic and chaotic days. The case of the false guarantee Is the blue striped parking lot the tip of the iceberg of the Municipality’s management showing the rope? Let’s get to the point: the discovery of the counterfeit policy, after a thousand reassurances about its validity, has brought to light some doubts about the actions of the administrative leaders of Palazzo Mercanti. Summits that from November 2022 are led by Luca Canessa, general manager who also combines the duties of the municipal secretary. A super manager chosen by the PD mayor Katia Tarasconi who has always shown absolute trust towards him.
Character acute and prepared, the Tuscan Canessa immediately takes charge of all the most pressing matters of the Administration upon his arrival; starting from the project on the underground car park in Piazza Cittadella, which involves the concession on the blue lines, including the new guarantee. Advised by an opinion of the Lawyers, led by Elena Vezzullithat there are many doubts about the policy, but in January 2023 the general director gave the go-ahead to the guarantee document.
Canessa versus Vezzulli
Not it is clear whether the guarantee from Abarca Seguros is the fuse, but it seems that a series of increasingly evident frictions is starting between the two. So much so that the lawyer Vezzulli and his office are gradually marginalized in important cases. This is demonstrated precisely by the process of the economic and financial rebalancing plan for the underground car park, approved by the city council last July and the consequent contractual addendum signed in December to complete the work. Iter that does not see any opinion from the Palazzo Mercanti Lawyers. A lack of control on a legal level highlighted several times in recent months by the opposition seats and returned to the sender by the majority. In the series, if Canessa says so, that’s fine.
Who does what?
Meanwhile the multifaceted general director is on the field as he should be on all fronts; and day after day it is said he focuses more and more responsibility on himself. So some are starting to think that the boundary between management of offices and practices, in relation to political skills, is becoming increasingly thin. But we must consider the rush to do, and certainly to do well, to relaunch the city, the figure that has been characterizing Mayor Tarasconi’s moves since his election in June 2022.
Rotation of managers
Unfortunately However, not everything always goes right. And to solve the problem of those who do not follow the general director, we are thinking of a management rotation plan, which primarily sees the lawyer Vezzulli in its sights. An announcement made recently and personally by Canessa during a council commission. With perhaps a little contradictory passages, given that in January two positions, that of the commander of the local police and the head of the legal profession, had been declared irremovable.
The front with the auditors
We discuss on this clash, and in the meantime the Portuguese policy is making its appearance again, opening up another front. This time the doubts about the guarantee are raised by the Board of Auditors, chaired by the accountant from Piacenza Davide Cetti. The Board also relaunches the doubts that emerged in the opinion of the Attorney’s Office. In short, here too we arrive at moments of tension with the general manager, where increasingly crude invitations to do what is appropriate are bounced back from one side and the other in various ways. To close the question on the policy even comes a sumptuous opinion from a Roman law firm: requested by the Honorable Member Paola De Micheliestablishes that everything is correct.
And now?
Sin then the history of the guarantee says something else. From the complaint made to the Prosecutor’s Office by the advisors of Fratelli d’Italia to the involvement of the Court of Auditors by the Board of Auditors. And today a hunt for responsibility began on those who cheated and those who were cheated, while those who had to check the policy were nitpicking and couldn’t see the beam before their eyes.
Now but the problem is to move forward, looking up from the false guarantee to all the large operations underway in Piacenza. In fact, several observers wonder whether the management of administrative affairs at Palazzo Mercanti does not need a careful re-evaluation – by the mayor – of weights, procedures and responsibilities, starting precisely from the duties of the general director.
Giovanni Volpi, professional journalist, is the director of Mio Giornale.net. He started at Sole-24 Ore in 1993. Ten years later he moved to Mondadori, to Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni, where he also held the role of deputy director. He directed Guida TV, TelePiù and 2Tv; also at Mondadori he was deputy editor of Grazia. He collaborated with the Espresso Group as an editorial and journalistic consultant for the local Finegil newspapers.
