The budget of the first year of activity of the mayor of Latina. The need to make a vision evident. As in the case of Roccasecca, in Ciociaria. The role that debate can have
Matilde Celentano, mayor of Latina, calls a meeting with the press for the first year of her mandate. Well. You need to say your vision in a chaos in which everyone teaches but no one, or almost no one, knows how to do it.
This year there has been a rush to do. Hyperactivism that was independent of realism. There’s too much: like cooking with too much salt. There’s too much like wanting to arrive without passing through the start and you stay still for two laps. Then…
The idea of an itinerary
But then, in putting all this activism into practice, it is difficult to identify an idea of an itinerary: where are we going? The Capital of Culture city is evocative but like a soufflé it risks deflating and leave only the signs on the access roads to the city.
Just to give a nearby example: also Roccasecca, the homeland of San Tommaso in the province of Frosinone, went through the same experience last year. But he made the most of it and she had a project developed that started right there: from the failed victory. Today his photos stand out on the service areas along the Autostrada del Sole with a very effective slogan: “Roccasecca, happiness is all here”. Mayor Peppe Sacco he swears that within a few days the B&Bs were all sold out.
It’s not the photos in the service stations that make the difference: they’re just a reminder. What makes the difference is the project made up of cultural itineraries, entertainment and mountain walks. In short, there is a path which was traced starting from the failed proclamation. And it works. In Latina?
Discussion wanted
The university is the only real estate avenue for the city to change while we live in it. So after a year the suggestion, the vision, the word is missing.
The sacred scriptures say: “in the beginning there was the word, then the word became flesh…“. Here, we need comparisons, non-rhetorical discussions and unanimity. We need dialectics in the majority, we need confrontation with the opposition. We need to hear from political families capable of identity projects. What will happen to the Key? (Read here: The endless agony of the Key).
Forza Italia should dream of a mega commercial space, Brothers of Italy a museum of 20th century art, the PD a “People’s House” but a tall one. L’Udc a story of the role of the parishes in the city that has been made, the League a megaproject for the protection of the Venetian language in Agro financed by Zaia.
These things would be useful, instead we will always and only tell ourselves that Latina, like the Rome of Nero-Petrolini, will rise ever greater and more beautiful than before…
Meanwhile there is smoke and ash.
