The words of Minister Salvini are not just promises, the time has come for the city of Brindisi, the territory, to see concrete facts on work and investments.
“The reconversion of the Enel power plant in Cerano, with the carbonization objective set in a few months, will include, between now and the summer, the construction of construction sites in the power plant to process the photovoltaic panels built in Catania, which in turn will produce solar energy for energy conversion. This is a ten-year project that will allow Enel to relocate all its employees, together with almost all of its related industries.”
These were the words uttered by the Minister and leader of the League Matteo Salvini in Brindisi this afternoon during a press conference (in which, among others, Mayor Marchionna participated) which was held in the Mario Guadalupi Hall, before leave for a rally in Bari.
Undoubtedly important declarations, in a dramatic phase in terms of employment (jobs continue to be lost, many workers at risk) and a very worrying industrial crisis.
Certainly a “welcome visit” in the institutional context, which is also expected and requested, also and above all, in the face of the trade union organizations which, in various press notes, have often underlined the “shortcomings” of the National Government
Concerns and positions taken by the unions are well-founded and legitimate, with the clear feeling (supported by factual data and negative scenarios) that Brindisi, the territory (in terms of development, investments and work) have been abandoned in all these years.
But we must, inevitably, look ahead, between PNRR, in fact carbonisation (but, how long has it been talked about? and then not much has been understood yet…) and, like it or not, beyond political affiliations, we need to deal with the current Meloni-led government.
There are many employment disputes in the field, atavistic, and others that have “exploded” in recent months, such as the 76 redundancies of the Sir company, the chemical-pharmaceutical sector (with the redundancy fund already carried out for around 164 EuroApi workers), the future still uncertain regarding the Basell plant.
Disputes, situations, to which Minister Salvini referred, but how many others are there, in Brindisi, in the area, in Puglia, evidently “not of great media impact”, taken care of, on a daily basis, by the Regional Task Force on crises employment led by Leo Caroli.
A “large crowd” to welcome the leader of the League, but how many workers, unemployed, desperate, former employees of investee companies (among all, the BPSP, of the Province of Brindisi, closed by the bureaucrat duo Ferrarese – Zingarello starting from 2010), former Brindisi workers in the waste sector, former workers in the industrial sector (including, also and above all, former Dow and former EVC, despite program agreements which were then just “waste paper”) never relocated to the job market, would have wanted ask the Minister for more than one thing?
The Vice Premier’s conclusions, before leaving for Bari, were: “I hope that someone will be a little calmer this evening when they return home to their children.”
We really hope that Matteo Salvini’s declarations are not (don’t beg it…) just promises, proclamations, but concrete facts.
But it is still not enough, waiting, among other things, for “the love declared in recent days by the President of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano towards the city of Brindisi to translate into greater attention and commitment on his part”.
