“In relation to the news that has been circulating for a few hours regarding the appointment of an Access Commission at the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, it is highlighted that the same is unfounded”. With these words in a message in the Whatsapp press group, the Prefecture of Reggio Calabria denied the news of the access commission arriving at the Municipality of Reggio Calabria. Contact them directly Prefect’s officesthey specified that the denial is aimed exclusively at the fact that the Access Commission is on the way “imminent“, as compared to “a matter of days or even hours“, but they cannot exclude that the commission will arrive. As well as they can’t confirm it. And they illustrated the steps.
In essence, there is a specific process and it will have to be the Prefect to do one request for delegation to the Ministry of the Interior. However, this is not a mere formality: first he will have to evaluate all the documents of the investigation. When this morning we wrote on StrettoWeb that the arrival of the commission is an obvious banalitywe were referring to merit of the maxi investigation and its contents. We also specified that the news of the commission’s arrival arrives from Rome. And we confirm it. We have never written that the commission has already arrived in the city: it cannot have already arrived nor can it arrive tomorrow or the day after. But it will come. Today the Prefecture obviously cannot confirm it, but neither can it exclude it. The Prefect will have to carefully evaluate the cards, and then we’ll see. The denial, therefore, is halfway: the access fee has not arrived, it will not arrive within hours or days and it is not even certain that it will arrive. The Prefect will decide on the basis of the investigation papers. In essence, we reiterate what was already published this morning, namely that – according to our sources – the access fee will arrive. Obviously in compliance with the times established by the regulations. Perhaps two weeks will pass, maybe a monthPerhaps twobut the access fee will arrive.
The precedent of 2012: there too the Prefecture denied the news, and after less than two months appointed the Access Commission
In this regard it is worth remembering the sensational precedent of 2012when the Prefecture denied the news of the arrival of the access commission and then, after 15 days, he appointed the access commission. It was November 22, 2011 and theHANDLE he wrote verbatim: “The Interior Ministry wants to see clearly about the alleged infiltration of the ‘Ndrangheta in the municipal company of Reggio Calabria Multiservizi Spa. A request for information was therefore sent to the prefect of the capital Luigi Varratta, after an investigation by the DDA had revealed an alleged control of the company by the Tegano gang”. The following day, the news was directly denied by the Prefect of Reggio Calabria, Luigi Varratta. On January 19, 2012, after less than two months, Varratta himself announced the arrival of the access commission.
Another parallel with 2012, but in reverse: the behavior of the opposition
A. is recorded in these hours another parallelbut in reversecompared to 2012. We must recognize the centre-right and in general at political oppositions of Falcomatàwho are adopting a very different behavior compared to what the opposition did 12 years agoand this time the attitude is much more noble and virtuous. In fact, we must acknowledge that no one is in the center-right of Reggio and Calabria rooting for the breakup or putting pressure on the government (centre-right) for send the access fee. The opposition parties limited themselves to ask the Mayor for his resignation, and they certainly did it not to avoid dissolution (which perhaps cannot be avoided even in the event of resignation), but at least to mitigate its timing and severity, avoiding a dramatic path for Reggio. Perhaps precisely because they are aware of what it means to suffer a breakup, having experienced it first hand.
Very different was the behavior of oppositions of the left and the Democratic Party to the right at the time. On November 16, 2011, in fact, the journalist Sandro Ruotolo he asked the minister Anna Maria Cancellieri in his inauguration press conference: “Minister, when will you send the Access Commission to the Municipality of Reggio Calabria?“. Probably Chancellors in that moment he didn’t even know where Reggio Calabria was. Those were the days of fall of Berlusconiof theItaly on the brink of default and the arrival of Mario Monti to Palazzo Chigibut for I roll it the main problem was the dissolution of the Municipality of Reggio. The same I roll it in 2020 he was elected senator of the Democratic Party in Naples and now it has been elected Euro MP again in the Democratic Party.
After a few days, on November 25, 2011, five Calabrian deputies of the Democratic Party (Doris Lo Moro, Rosa Villecco Calipari, Laura Garavini, Franco Laratta and Nicodemo Oliverio) even presented a parliamentary question addressed to the Minister of the Interior, requesting the access commission to the Municipality of Reggio Calabria.
Today, however, there is no one who is rooting for the dissolution. There’s no one asking for it. There is no one who hopes for it and hopes for it. There is no one putting pressure on the government. Simply there are cardsheavy as a boulder, of the maxi investigation of Public Prosecutor’s Office of Reggio Calabria which hypothesizes with numerous evidence the cases of electoral fraud in favor of the Democratic Party and of political-mafia electoral exchange not only of a PD municipal councilor, but even of the Mayor himself. And those cards are under consideration by the Prefect Clara Vaccarowhich in the next few days, in the next weeks, after having carefully studied them, will have to decide what to do.
From Rome – we repeat – they have no doubts: on the merits of those papers, one can only mention the access commission. The Prefecture, rightly, says today that it still has to evaluate those papers. Which means the access fee it’s not there yet (no one ever said that!) but he doesn’t rule out that it might arrive. And mind you: the arrival of the access commission does not automatically lead to dissolution. As already illustrated in this morning’s articleit will then be the commission that will have to decide whether or not the conditions for dissolution exist.
We can only add that if the access commission is not appointed for Reggio Calabria after what emerged in the Ducale investigationthat is, the phone calls to “Danielino” (as the Mayor calls him), son-in-law of the boss considered by the Prosecutor’s Office to be the political representative of the gang to whom Falcomatà asks “a hand, a big hand“to win the ballot, to then do the entire electoral campaign together and after the electoral victory appoint him to a delicate control body of the same Municipality, then it will mean that the law on anti-mafia access in municipalities has been changed and therefore the access fees they will never be sent to any institution in Italy again.
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