Ferrara Look at the speck in your political opponent’s eye and ignore the beam planted in your own. The center-left candidate for mayor, Fabio Anselmohe did not mention the parable but this was the meaning of the answer he gave to the senator Alberto Balboni (Fdi), who today (14 May, ed.) in a local newspaper accused him of having someone convicted of “fraudulent bankruptcy” on a list that supports him. A «5 thousand euro bankruptcy – he replied – a used car that ended up in an old legal case. News brandished by those who, and I underline Balboni, lawyer and president of the Constitutional Affairs Commission, in his party, in parliament, have a former undersecretary of the Republic, Augusta Montaruli, convicted of embezzlement, which is a crime against the public administration” ( for the case of improper use of funds from the Piedmont Region, ed.). To Balboni and Naomo (the deputy mayor of Ferrara, who recently asked for the PD candidate’s criminal certificate on Facebook Diego Marescotti but he himself has several unfavorable measures against him that have become final, ed.) I reply that we are not as broke as them. Going into concrete terms, this administration should help us understand where the 50 thousand euros collected by citizens to support the city’s hospital during the pandemic went. Now they say they are returning them but taking them from other budget items. This is what the “storyteller” Alan Fabbri should explain to us. Where did the money raised go? Naomi Lodi, instead, he should accept my invitation to a discussion also in the Gad area, where he wants it”. With Balboni, Anselmo opened a professional “confrontation”. «He sets himself up as a champion of legality, but I have received two prizes Purse and a prize Caponnetto and among the reasons there is also the culture of legality. How many awards has he received?
Then the discussion turned to electoral expenses: «Fabbri declared an estimated cost of 300 euros for posters, internet and other things – said Anselmo, referring to the massive campaign of maxi-posters that were displayed in the city for weeks –Praises 5,799, Forza Italia 2,500 and the lawyer Minichiello (candidate with the CDU) 2,300. This administration should give precise answers on the use of public money, given that the same company was given a total of 800 thousand euros for signage in 2023 and allocated for 2024.” Finally the electoral case. Anselmo, together with Leonardo Fiorentini, candidate on the “Anselmo mayor” list, reported that «on May 10th we asked for availability for an electoral initiative here, in front of our headquarters in Piazza Cacciaguida. But the Department of Commerce denied it to us without reason. Yet the prefecture has issued instructions for three central squares (Castello, Trento Trieste and Repubblica) and does not prohibit electoral initiatives in other places, so much so that the Councilor for Culture will hold an initiative with Fabbri at the urban park on 18 May and Salvini for five years ago he held a rally in the “Giordano Bruno” gardens. We will take the initiative anyway.”
