“The electoral campaign for the European and local elections will end in a few hours.
As well as for the election of representatives to the Parliamentor European, in Calabria we vote in 135 municipalities for the renewal of the municipal council and, therefore, for the election of the mayor. DTwo of these municipalities return to the vote after their dissolution due to mafia-type infiltration and conditioning, one in the province of Reggio Calabria, Portigliola, and the other in the province of Vibo Valentia, Soriano Calabro, already dissolved twice.
An electoral round of particular interest in our region affected by continuous law enforcement operations and important mafia trials they confirmed the great ability of organized crime to influence the political, economic and social life of entire territories.
There are some municipalities, in particular those in the Vibo area, including the capital Vibo Valentia, which are returning to the vote after a succession of important operations, such as Rinascita – Scott, the largest operation against the ‘Ndrangheta.
All these operations, the dissolutions, the access commissions demonstrate that politics and the parties have not always been up to the historical moment we are experiencing with respect to that strong and widespread feeling of liberation of the territories.
Recalling a great teaching by Paolo Borsellino, we made a strong appeal to the political parties and alignments to feel a strong sense of responsibility which must lead them to carry out a major internal clean-up not only of those investigated and convicted but also of those who are ” chatted” for a certain type of proximity, attitudes which, even if they do not constitute a crime, make that politician less credible and unreliable in the management of public affairs.
In this sense, a strong and uncompromising change of pace is necessary.
It is precisely in Vibo Valentia with the association “Together for the Common Good” that we presented the “Pact for the City”: a concrete opportunity for direct participation and active citizenship that can serve to create antibodies against bad business and the corruption. THEmutual commitments of a programmatic, ethical, democratic and concrete nature for the good of the community, that bind in a continuous relationship of verification and planning administrators and citizens, foundation of an authentic ascending democracy. An integral part of the pact sor not also the “Appeal to candidates” and the “Code of Ethics for good politics” developed by “Public Notice”, the association that brings together local authorities and regions against mafias and corruption.
