We receive and publish the programmatic document with which Pierluigi Smaldonerepresenting the civic lists “Potenza Ritorna”, “Città Nuova” and of the “Five Star Movement”, and Francesco Giuzio, representing “La Basilicata Possibile”, they signed an agreement with Vincenzo Telesca for support at the next ballot on 23 and 24 June 2024 for the election of the mayor of Potenza.
Here are the details:
“The alternative political forces to the outgoing Lega-led administration have met in order to agree on an alliance in view of the run-off elections on 23 and 24 June 2024.
Representing the three sides are the three candidates for mayor Vincenzo Telesca, Pierluigi Smaldone and Francesco Giuzio.
Pierluigi Smaldone, representing the civic lists “Potenza Ritorna”, “Città Nuova” and the “Five Star Movement”, and Francesco Giuzio, representing “La Basilicata Possibile”, proposed a formal alliance, as per the mandate received from the lists and parties respectively in support of them.
After a careful analysis of the vote and the political perspectives in the field, the mayoral candidate Vincenzo Telesca proposed instead the sharing of a programmatic agreement aimed at sharing a project which not only looks at the liberation of Potenza from the Right, but which finally finds , the way for the aggregation of a reformist and progressive camp in Basilicata.
Having positively evaluated the outcome of the consultation also with their own electoral base, Pierluigi Smaldone and Francesco Giuzio, respectively representing their own lists, decided to accept the proposal, sharing its guiding principles.
While the right is bent on dividing seats and identifying positions for individuals, the beacon of this nascent group is one and only one: the common good!
The spirit that unites the three mayoral candidates, in fact, starts from the sharing of a vision, planning and planning necessary for the capital.
Among the qualifying points of the shared program:
1. Stop land consumption by encouraging urban regeneration and the reuse of abandoned properties. Creation of meeting and participation spaces for citizens.
2. Connection between the University and the city’s social fabric.
3. Request to the Government for the appointment of an extraordinary commissioner for Bucaletto.
4. Incisive action towards the Region and the Government for the construction of the link road connecting Polla to the Salerno-Reggio Calabria high-speed line.
5. Activation of the Teatro Stabile Foundation by November 2024 (so as to be able to apply for national funding in January 2025).
6. Extraordinary plan for the districts and suburbs with the creation of a department dedicated to the districts.
7. Renewed attention to the historic centre, in its peculiarities, with the appointment of the councilor for the Historic Center and Tourism (read exemption for commercial premises, review of the mechanized and road public transport service, urban decoration).
8. Sport as a driving force for the city’s socio-economic development; establishment of a Sports Citadel.
9. Initiatives to enhance the natural beauty and green areas of our city. Revisitation of the separate waste collection system that will lead Potenza to become a zero waste city.
10. Evaluation of a municipal company for the autonomous management of transport for Potenza and neighboring countries.
The sharing of a firm no to Differentiated Autonomy, which wants to remove resources from our already tormented realities to bring them towards the north, was unanimous, together with the denunciation of the mismanagement of the right-wing parties that have brought the capital into the situation in which it finds itself.
A political laboratory is therefore born in Potenza which, thanks to the understanding and sacrifice of the coalitions that have chosen to undertake a common path, united to bring real change to Potenza, can lay the foundations for a structured relationship also on a regional level ”.
In a note then they say i regional secretaries of the political parties who support the candidacy of Francesco Fanelli as mayor of Potenza:
“We learned from social channels of the agreement reached by the left front, albeit not officially.
In fact, an alliance, as the law provides, would have made the already tense relations of recent days even more difficult and above all put into crisis the figure of two mayoral candidates who until the other day were flaunting freedom of action and thought, as well as the fight to the devices.
The same apparatuses that for thirty years have caused disasters in the Region and in the city, have now instead sucked them in, effectively selling off every ambition and front of identity and discontinuity with the past.
Reading some of the programmatic points signed, it is clear that the city’s assets are once again being sold off in front of the seats to be shared.
We have always been united and coherent, they first hid the symbols and now they are trying to get their hands back on power and the city.
We talked about the vision of the city, they talked about partisan interests.
The difference is all here.
We will continue to be free, they will continue to submit to these games that damage, and will continue to do so, all those in power.
Our electoral campaign continues and is filled with even more enthusiasm.
We are convinced that, like us, the majority of people in Potenza do not want to go back, take a leap into the past.
A dark past to be archived, which leaves us only the memory of two dramatic disasters in just a few years.
We are and will continue to be the only real alternative to the party of disasters.”
