«The most beautiful bus station in Campania certainly didn’t fall from heaven. With us the greatest attention to internal areas since the Regions came into being. On IIA we will fight until the end, but I ask the unions for serious mobilization in Rome, not just occasional press releases.”
The president of the Campania Region returns to the capital Vincenzo De Lucathe occasion is the presentation of new buses assigned to AIR Campania as part of the regional program for the renewal of the vehicle fleet of local public road transport companies.
With De Luca, the President of the Regional Transport Commission, Luca Casconethe administrator of AIR Campania, Anthony Acconciathe councilor for productive activities Antonio Marchiello.
In presence of Gerardo CapozzaACI General Secretary, and of Stefano LombardiPresident Automobile Club Avellino, the new offices of the Automobile Club of Italy (Territorial Unit) and the Automobile Club Avellino were also inaugurated.
The entire staff of the local Democratic Party welcomed the president, starting with the mayoral candidate Antonio Gengarothe regional councilor Maurizio Petraccathe president of the Health Commission Enzo Alaiabut also the former President of the Rosetta Regional Council D’Ameliothe delegate of the Consortium for the Reclamation of the Lower Volturno Basin Francesco Todiscothe mayor of Ariano Enrico France.
Eleven vehicles presented: 4 diesel Ayats Horizon double-deckers from Officine Di Maio, 4 methane (CNG) Indcar MOBI on a 7-meter Iveco base and 3 Vivacity, 8-meter diesel engines, from IIA. The new buses combine efficiency, safety, comfort, accessibility and sustainability. They are equipped with video surveillance and infomobility systems, passenger counting and digital systems for validating tickets.
On the developments of affair IIA, with the sale of the shares to the Seri group, De Luca admits: «The industrial plan is not clear. We asked for a medium-term perspective for Invitalia. But I believe it is necessary to have the medium-long term industrial plan to formulate a definitive assessment. Otherwise, a feeling of precariousness would persist »he explained. «Beyond considerations about people and companies, I am interested in having certainties regarding the industrial plan. Meanwhile, half of the buses delivered today have given a boost to the otherwise dormant Industria Italiana Bus. In the coming months and years, we will produce more. We will follow this story closely, as I believe it is a strategic company for Italy. The demand for buses is there. We are not talking about a sector in decline, Italy has an interest in guaranteeing the future of the IIA. We are determined to continue this battle to the end. Obviously, he adds, the trade unions, if the situation remains uncertain, should promote protests in Rome. Their occasional press releases are not enough to promote social struggle. It is necessary to go to Rome and make yourself heard, because there is no other way.”
And the unions are present with a delegation of workers, with the Irpinia secretary of Fiom-Cgil Giuseppe Vice. On the sidelines there is also a face-to-face meeting with the regional councilor Marchiello.
«We are often seeing each other in Avellino, De Luca tells Capozza, confirming the fact that the Campania government deals with the entire region, not just the metropolitan area of Naples and the coastal strip».
Among the latest events is the inauguration of the new hospital “Frangipane” by Ariano Irpino. Mayor Enrico Franza was in the room, ever closer to the positions of the Democratic Party. Also present was the director of the ASL Mario Ferrante.
“On Solofra – announces De Luca – we will have the inauguration of the entire hospital this week. I remember all the stupid things I heard in recent weeks, they said we would close it, but instead we renovated it with an investment of over 10-15 million euros.” Therefore investments at Muscatsand on road infrastructure Lioni-Grottaminarda.
«We have given unprecedented political-programmatic and financial attention to the internal areas since the regions were established».
Avellino, underlines de Luca, is the most beautiful bus station in the entire Campania region. «It certainly didn’t fall from paradise – he underlines – it was born from the investments of the Region, from the work of Air and Acamir, we must be proud of it. Today we deliver another 100 new buses, but everywhere in the region there is a short memory: we traveled on trains and buses that were cattle wagons, more stationary than moving. Today there are cutting-edge vehicles, which have given breathing space to local companies such as Industria Italiana Autobus which is in difficulty but which we are trying to relaunch.”
On the ballot who will decide the next mayor of the city, does not go too far by avoiding mentioning both Nargi and Gengaro: «Good luck. But don’t make predictions out of courtesy that you bring dryly” he comments sarcastically to the press.
