There was a way: the alignment complete with symbols on the ballot paper. The respectable people of Potenza would have had a chance to have many votes flow towards the symbols of Francesco Giuzio and Smaldone, providing them with the necessary consensus to have a weight in the next municipal administration. A burden that would have reduced the appetites of the gentlemen accompanying Telesca in the race to Piazza Sedile. And instead? Both Giuzio and Smaldone gave in, they accepted the mayoral candidate’s proposal in the ballot “for a programmatic agreement aimed at sharing a project that not only looks at the liberation of Potenza from the Right, but which finally finds the way to aggregation of a reformist and progressive camp in Basilicata.”
We are still spreading nonsense in public opinion. Giuzio and Smaldone write in a press release issued this afternoon: “The spirit that unites the three mayoral candidates, in fact, starts from the sharing of a vision, planning and planning necessary for the capital.” We’re sorry, but it’s a position that calls for disastrous compromises and a great desire for power. The so-called qualifying points of the shared program are a decoy, the usual handshakes en passant, just for…
That program does not disturb at all the powers that have had their hands on the city for decades, they will let you do it, while they continue undisturbed in the succulent business. “Stop land consumption by encouraging urban regeneration and the reuse of abandoned properties?” Here they won’t make you do this, everything else yes, because everything else is rubbish. In the program shared for the agreement, no vision of the future for Potenza, but small “condominium” adjustments and some slogans to be fed to the voters.
The decision of Basilicata Possibile and the lists supporting Smaldone to join an unrelated agreement with Telesca is the latest disappointment suffered by respectable citizens. Let’s prepare ourselves for a dramatically messy and inconsistent council, but very fruitful for the usual suspects who don’t care a jot about citizens. Let’s prepare ourselves for an administration directed by entrepreneurs and old political foxes who have led the city and Basilicata to become a casino table on which only they play.
We hope that the citizens will desert the polls and that Fanelli will win, because this city, after having hit rock bottom with Guarente, needs to lose itself in the abyss. However, we are not optimistic, because the city is in the hands of a minority of cardboard VIPs, of bourgeois or parasitic facsimiles of bourgeois who play politics like burraco in improbable living rooms furnished in Casamonica style. In any case, the responsibility for what has been and what will be lies entirely with those in power, those for good and those for evil.
