“It is at least singular that the last mayors of the centre-left, before the reckless Galimberti Virgilio couple, made such a profound mea culpa of the administration wanted by the centre-left in Cremona. And this demonstrates that the errors have continued over time. No one has never reformed. Indeed, where possible, the couple has even amplified them to the point of being at the center of a barrage of thousands of citizens”. He says it Alessandro Portesani center-right candidate for the office of mayor commenting on the statements of the former first citizens Giancarlo Corada And Paolo Bodini on cremonevening both elected by the centre-left.
“Just read what Corada says about the urban planning policies of the last ten years on trade. He candidly admits that the issue of desertification of the center has even worsened due to the “choice to dot the surroundings of the city with supermarkets and shopping centres; but not only that, because if it is true that in the center today you see many empty shops – even historic ones – no one is talking about the over 2,500 vacant apartments”: not bad for a center-left mayor talking about his successor. But Corada also has galling words about the youth chapter “if we exclude the two main squares (Piazza della Pace and Piazza Stradivari) the rest of the city offers no attraction, excluding a few places of attraction“. “Galimberti and Virgilio failed, also very failed on the safety chapter. The former mayor admits. “Petty crime has certainly grown compared to my time, increasing citizens’ perception of insecurity, even if all in all Cremona is not an unsafe city. It’s clearer than that“.
“Even Paolo Bodini, an exponent of civil society, spares no notes. The first on the streets: great protagonists of this electoral campaign“, explains Portesani. “We have always told ourselves several times to invest more money in maintenance work and then the funds were regularly not found. Evidently the problems had already existed since then. What happened? Practically nothing because, almost twenty years later, we still talk about the disaster of potholes and unworthy pavements for Cremona”.
