Evacuations and earthquake bonuses, local authorities on the barricades, new summit from Musumeci

48 hours after the inter-ministerial summit with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Minister Nello Musumeci, today at 11am Musumeci himself reconvened the table with the sole exception of the Prime Minister who will not be there. Summit which should serve to materialize the process of the decree “Phlegraean Fields” which, as the minister explained, “will be discussed in the next session of the Council of Ministers”. It is necessary to decide – in substance – the amount of resources to be provided, we are talking about half a billion for the area of ​​the bradyseism crater which also touches Naples. An intermediate step preceded by the meeting in the Prefecture in Naples yesterday, with the Prefect Michele Di Bari and the mayors of the crater, an attempt to clear away controversies and doubts about the methods of the Government’s intervention which are spreading among the first citizens of the yellow area, especially with respect to the use of funds.

Di Bari – it transpires from the Prefecture – explained that the operation of the decree will be decided today. And in fact it is made very clear in the note issued by Palazzo Chigi. «The first citizens of the Campi Flegrei area were summoned to discuss the situation and the interventions to be implemented». Note that it continues as follows: «At the meeting a Palazzo Chigi the mayors of Naples and the metropolitan city will participate Gaetano Manfredi, from Pozzuoli Gigi Manzoni and from Bacoli Josi Gerardo Della Ragione”. The Region does not appear in the statement – it remains to be understood whether it is just an oversight or there is something else – but it will be there, this transpires from the body chaired by Vincenzo de Luca. And it will be represented by the deputy governor with responsibility for the Environment Fulvio Bonavitacola. Which will cash in on the development and cohesion funds. Campania has not yet signed the agreement with Minister Raffaele Fitto, but asks that at least the 70 million “for the escape routes of the Phlegraean Fields be disbursed”.

By hook or by crook there is no shortage of friction. The summit arrives in the midst of a controversy involving Musumeci, De Luca, Elly Schlein the secretary of the Democratic Party and also Matteo Renzi. In particular, a statement from Musumeci that came into focus after the first summit: “Those who chose to live in the Campi Flegrei area knew they lived in a difficult area that presents risks.” Musumeci himself then clarified the meaning of his words: «The only faults lie with those who allowed havoc in the past and not with the citizens». But by then the omelette was already done especially if we consider the electoral climate in which the conflict is taking place. The minister’s statements have welded a axis between the mayors of the crater and De Luca. «We must not make fun of people – says De Luca – we must not engage in demagoguery. However, we cannot even attribute gods to those born in that territory Phlegraean Fields the responsibility of being born there. We know it’s difficult territory. What is the alternative? Should we evacuate the entire affected area on Vesuvius or from Campi Flegrei and Pozzuoli?”. Words shared by the first citizens of Pozzuoli and Bacoli. The Democratic Party enters into the controversy with the Schlein: «I am very struck by Musumeci’s words, what sense does it make to blame those who live there. This does not entitle a member of the government to wash their hands of it.” For Schlein «The government’s role is to support the mayors in indicating solutions for 80 thousand people who are not to blame for living in a risk area. Welcome if someone wants to remove those homes from there, perhaps moving them somewhere else.” Renzi isn’t tender either: «I didn’t like Musumeci’s sentence. Not very brilliant, Meloni intervenes.”

Manfredi stays away from controversy, but today he will listen first and then explain his point of view which is more or less this: continue and accelerate in the wake of the bradyseism decree, but identifying forms of support or contributions managed by the Municipalities or by the Government itself. Funds which, however, must be used to make private buildings safer. The substance of Manfredi’s message is this: the effects of the earthquake can be fought with safe homes, only in this way can the population who lives there be reassured. The management of the funds directly to the Municipalities is a battle that Manfredi has been fighting for months, also with the support of the ANCI.

The mayors – his reasoning – are the first institutional representatives to whom those in difficulty turn. Hence the priority given to the Municipalities. Deputy governor Bonavitacola hits on two buttons: the release of FSC funds and the development of the “earthquake bonus”. He spoke again to De Luca: «I will ask through civil protection to use the former NATO base in Bagnoli as a place of support for those who are afraid of earthquakes and do not want to sleep at home. I happened to see them in the night Phlegraean Fields, when I was there, hundreds of people who were on the street in cars due to the earthquake shocks.” Luigi Manzoni, the mayor of Pozzuoli, expects concreteness from the summit: «The release of FSC funds for the Campi Flegrei – he says – is fundamental – and then we must give answers to those who live in private buildings. We need to know how to help them and with what resources. The verification of the buildings is fundamental and to do it you need to have the resources, you need speed in unlocking them.”

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