More efficient services, less waste, more state transfers, more streamlined planning. These are some of the advantages resulting from the merger of the Municipalitieswhich trade union organizations have long considered a tool for development, especially in an area like Polesine, marked by a constant demographic decline and a progressive aging of the population, in the face of an impoverishment of services for citizens.
We will talk about it on Saturday 18 May, from 9.30, in the Ariano nel Polesine Culture Hall and the conference will be entitled “Merger of Municipalities. Possible tool for socio-economic development?” and is organized by the secretariats of Cgil, Cisl and Uil of Rovigo with the respective federations of pensioners Spi Cgil, Fnp Cisl and Uil Pensioners. The meeting will be introduced by the general secretary of CISL Padua Rovigo Samuel Scavazzin.
They will intervene then Luca Modena, author of a thesis on this topic and Michele Sigolotto, mayor of Borgo Veneto, born in 2018 from the merger between Megliadino San Fidenzio, Saletto and Santa Margherita d’Adige, who will illustrate the positive experience of his Municipality, 35 kilometers from Rovigo and 45 from Padua. A round table will follow, moderated by the coordinator of the Uil of Rovigo Gino Gregnanin, with the mayors of Ariano nel Polesine Luisa Beltrame, of Corbola Michele Domeneghetti, of Loreo Moreno Gasparini, of Porto Tolle Roberto Pizzoli, of Porto Viro Valeria Mantovan, of Rosolina Michele Grossed and Cut by Po Layla Marangoni. The conference will be concluded by the general secretary of the CGIL of Rovigo Pieralberto Colombo.
The population of the seven municipalities that correspond to the internal contract area of the Po Delta mouth it has gone from 50,693 inhabitants in 2001 to the current 45,968. Three of these municipalities do not have more than 4 thousand inhabitants and among them only one exceeds 10 thousand. The percentage of citizens over 65 is constantly increasing in all municipalities, while the incidence of social expenses on total current expenditure continues to decrease, eroded by that for institutional and management services, which continues to grow. More detailed data will be disseminated during the meeting.
“Local administrations – say the provincial secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL – they encounter increasing difficulties in guaranteeing services that can respond to the needs of families and as trade union organizations we also realize this through social negotiation activity. To relaunch the territory, economies of scale are needed that free up resources to be allocated to more extensive welfare, as well as greater state contributions, a leaner bureaucracy and more rational planning for development that makes the territory more attractive for workers and companies”.
