2024 municipal elections, Avellino tries again after the scandals: «Let’s look ahead»

An outgoing mayor, Gianluca Festato the home on charges of Association to crime, fake, auction rigging, is a strong shock for the city of bread and politics. The image of the mayor taking away the office computer from the Municipality is the lowest point in the city’s recent history. Avellino tries to overcome the trauma by homeopathically nominating Festa’s deputy for a five-year term, Laura Nargi (she was also investigated in the investigation into competitions and tenders in the Municipality); she even tries with Anthony Gengarothe vice mayor who twenty years ago supported a legendary mayor like Antonio Di Nunno.

Running next to them is an anchorman from state TV, the journalist Rino Genovese. The civics that support Nargi and Genovese have to deal with the traditional parties that go with Gengaro (Pd and M5S) and three other candidates: Gennaro Romei (Udc), Victor Boccieri (close to Match Communist) D’Andrea (near Refoundation). And civility against parties is a theme of this electoral campaign that tries to get the city to discuss. The other day a joker distributed original vintage leaflets with a «vote for De Mita» in big letters, rogue nostalgia. And perhaps the real issue is the city’s identity which must be rediscovered now that it has been definitively lost.

The earthquake

Over the years, the capital of the earthquake has tried to become the capital of the internal areas, at least the Irpinian ones. It was the dream of every mayor of the capital. But only when over half a century ago a Minister of Transport of Irpinia (Florentine On the) managed to divert the route of the Autostrada del Sole towards Avellino, a moment of glory was experienced. Since then it gradually closed railway to Alta Irpinia and then the one for Salerno and Benevento (where high-speed trains began starting after a five-year period). The post-earthquake situation is different, which beyond the reconstruction of houses and infrastructures with expenses accounted for in thousands of billions of lire at the time, led to the birth of 13 industrial centres which boast the presence of major brands from the Italian and international industry: from Zuegg to Ferrero, from Rolls Royce to Stellantis.

In Avellino the employment rate is 38% compared to 45 of the Village. A hard core of highly qualified employment in a mix between traditional manufacturing and driven innovation (such as Omi which produces aerospace technologies and Acca which is an international leader in engineering design software). Avellino tried
to be reborn with the cultureThe Cimarosa conservatory attracts students to dalla Chinabut it doesn’t have a real university course, just buddings of the Frederick II And of the University of Salerno.

And perhaps the very idea that Avellino could do it on its own, without the contribution of the province, was the element that the forces in the field are trying to recover today. Irpinia has three wines with a controlled and guaranteed designation of origin, a hazelnut harvesting and processing sector among the first in Italy, a significant contribution to the GDP from the confectionery sector (chocolate and nougats) and yet Avellino lacks a exhibition centre where to land in search of local goodness. Seven days ago, in the city, to taste Taurasi, Fiano And Greek dthe Tuff he wandered around Spallettijust to say.

The blitz

All issues that the candidates brought up together with the transport issue (Avellino is thethe only capital of Campania without a railway), to the question of public water (the lrpinia quenches the thirst of Puglia and Naples cities but the management is in the hands of the Apulian aqueduct), to that of the heavy post-earthquake prefabricated buildings still inhabited despite the presence of asbestos. Big and small events that have to deal with the alchemy of the parties: here DeLuca for the first time he said yes to an agreement with the Five Star Movement, having his son Piero bless it, while the deputy elected by the Brothers of Italy, the Christian Democrat Gianfranco Rotondi, does not support the list of Melonians which presents its own candidate for mayor. The aftermath of the raids on the Municipality have already shocked the city, now they could lead to an increase in abstentionism.

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