Among the clearest contrary interventions were theirs: that of Saverio Crazy and Enzo Musolino, of the PD Club of Villa San Giovanni. Contrary, of course, to Bridge over the Strait. Nothing surprising, considering their position since forever. Yesterday, one as a Councilor and the other as a citizen and representative of a club, spoke during the long open City Council of Reggio Calabria who discussed the work.
La Strada: “the open city council approves the firm NO to this Bridge and accepts the Pazzano motion
“Let’s say a firm no to how we arrived, to how we are arriving, to all the fragilities, the inconsistencies, the inconsistencies that lie behind a public work like this”, these words addressed to assembly from Mayor Falcomatà they sanction, at the end of the City Council meeting opened on the Bridge, a clear position of the municipal administration of Reggio Calabria. A very participatory City Council, both in interventions and in the presence of citizens, which highlights the ability to transfer the debate from the squares and streets to institutional settings, where the demands of the people who see their homes and assets threatened, of the people who they understand how desires that have nothing to do with public interests loom over their land, they become political directions, administrative choices”.
“A clear pathhighly controversial, which, starting from the public meeting convened on March 1st by The street in the Battaglia council chamber, he was able to change a timid criticism of local institutions to some approaches of the Government on the Bridge into an inexorable rejection of the procedures, methods, times, arguments and technical data produced so far. This was done through real listening to the territories, the associations, the trade unions, the political movements and parties, the intermediate bodies which – with extremely enriching differences and pluralities – presented and discussed objective contents that demonstrate the great Bridge bluff“.
“The culmination of the open city council discussion was the motion presented by La Strada with councilor Saverio Pazzano: one complete suspension of any complementary activity or preparatory to the Bridge, until there is an executive project”.
The data is extremely significant: only the executive project, if and when it is ever presented, will be able to say that the technical possibilities and money to build the Bridge really exist. Until then the municipal administration of Reggio Calabria says no to the risk of the area becoming a construction site, that houses are expropriated, that the possible movement of inert materials transforms our valleys into landfills. “Not pending the services conference, not pending the construction site project, but pending the executive project”, councilor Pazzano was very clear in reiterating the gist of the motion. “Because it is only upon presentation of the executive project that it will be possible to discuss the merits of the work. In the absence of this, we can only draw political data from the technical data, which have so far been critical: the suspension of any activity is the only way to protect the territory of the Strait Area, to defend the interests of its population”.
Together with this, the motion, already approved in the municipal commission, asks for the opening of a table that sees all the administrators of the Strait Area to discuss with the Government the real needs of the territories, on a program of valorization, mobility, on contents presented by those representing local communities.
“We can assume the meaning of the motion that binds the Mayor and the Council as a commitment”. These words which close the beautiful council meeting now open a field of proactive discussion for all the other administrations of the Strait Area. La Strada is happy to have opened a prospect of dialogue with the democratic and progressive realities of the territory, starting from a motion that enhances the “Precautionary Principle”, established by law, as an element of dignity of the communities of the Strait and delivers to the administrators an important political-administrative tool”.
Also from Villa’s PD “no to the work that captures the essence, the meaning, the idea of the Pazzano motion”
“This important moment of public discussion, wanted by the mayor Falcomatà also at the instigation of the councilor Saverio Pazzano, has certified a point of no return. The majority city councillors, despite the pluralism of the approaches represented, have all highlighted the limits and critical issues of this “Bridge”, of the procedure implemented by Salvini and co. It was the advisor Giuseppe Marinofor the Democratic partyto clarify the unity of intent of all the articulations of the national and local Center-Left: this is not the case, this is how the territories, communities, citizens who are victims of the expropriate“.
“The mayor Falcomatà, then, at the end of the work, he clarified clearly what the “institutional” approach means: no third party, no neutrality. The institutions have the duty to operate well beyond the “Bridge” procedures. The Strait Area is built with the protagonism of the territories and not with the subtraction of the Cohesion Funds operated by the Government to finance the “Great Work” of the North league. And theStrait area is built – these are the first results achieved – with the single integrated ticket Atm/Atamwith the strengthening of mobility on the Strait, with functional hydrofoils at the Reggio airport”.
“The summary of this journey? The mayor of Reggio, his majority, his party, say a “definite NO” to this Bridge and they accept the essence, the meaning, the idea of the “Pazzano motion” which commits the mayor to suspending every act preparatory to the realization of this very dangerous deception wanted by Salvini”.
“The consequences of this clear stance have direct consequences throughout the Metropolitan City. It is hoped that one demonstration of direct and similar political will can also be expressed at Palazzo San Giovanni, in the Council Chamber of Villa, with a renewed protagonism of the mayor and the municipal councilors of the “city under the Bridge”. The same applies, of course, also to Messina. Stating a “SOUND NO” in the face of the arrogance of the Right ready to rape the Strait matters, indeed! Formalizing the political will of the City Council counts, of course! Suspending everything for the precautionary principle counts, of course! Sending all the paperwork back to Rome and finally asking for the activation of a “national” table for the necessary infrastructure in our territories certainly counts!”.
“Yesterday a milestone was marked for all our communities, the Council of Reggio Emilia, its Mayor, took on a leading role against the improper and disorganized accelerations that accompany the tragicomic pantomime put in place by the Northern League, by that stranger on the heart” of which Falcomatà spoke well. A burden that is no longer bearable and requires courage and competence. The others, those in favor, the supporters of the Work, were all absent. From the empty seats of the Right, once again, the disinterest in the real problems of Reggio and the CM emerged, the sidereal distance from the real issues that concern the destinies of the territories, highlighting once again the concrete inability of the oppositions to become an alternative in government of the city. In fact, they respond to other, exogenous interests, far from the Strait”.
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