We receive and publish from Leo Barberio, provincial secretary of the Crotone Democratic Party: The extraordinary municipal council that took place yesterday in Crotone on the topic of reclamation at the conclusion of the facts was just yet another personal show by the mayor Enzo Voce. To those who, like the representatives of the minority, ask for a clear stance on waste deriving from reclamation outside the region, the mayor responds by arrogantly offending councilors of other political colours, as in the case of Andrea Devona, PD group leader in the city council. Full solidarity with Andrea, who stubbornly tries to keep the bar straight on the objective of distancing the disposal of waste from the reclamation area from the Crotone landfills.
There is no justification for the behavior of Mayor Voce who, instead of opening a dialogue on the issue, puts his foot down, closing himself behind the usual slogans and the usual self-narration. At this moment the citizens of Crotone would need unity on such a delicate issue on which ENI’s line seems clear and definitive: “Keep the waste in Crotone”. Enzo Voce should have been the one who would have brought discontent over the delays in the clean-up to the institutions, but at this point I don’t understand whether the protest has actually subsided thanks also to the investments of ENI in the city or, more simply, it was all a farce to ride the emotional wave and sit in Piazza della Resistenza.
Unfortunately, what emerges from this story is the lack of a real political line within the municipality of Crotone, because the reclamation issue is, at this moment, a political problem rather than a technical and legal one, which we in the Democratic Party are looking for to resolve by involving society and politics at all levels: local, with the collection of signatures together with the Fuori i Poileni Committee, regional, with the motion of the PD group of Palazzo Campanella to modify the Regional Waste Plan, and at national level with the warning sent directly to ENI and the Ministry of the Environment. I would like to involve the mayor, but no longer only within the institutional rooms, also in front of ordinary citizens, in a television discussion, moderated by a third-party journalist, who asks questions (even uncomfortable ones). I hope you accept my proposal for the good of all the people of Crotone.
Leo Barberio
Secretary of the Democratic Party Federation
Province of Crotone
