“Respect for the city also and above all passes through respect for the cemetery and for our deceased: a phrase that many Cremonese are sharing, in these hours, on social media and with which we in the center-right can only join. So it will be our task to restore the decoration of the cemetery which is in terrible condition after ten years of the council whose deputy mayor was Andrea Virgilio now candidate of the centre-left”. He says it today Alessandro Portesani candidate for the center-right for the office of mayor, commenting on the dozens of images posted on social media by citizens outraged by the conditions of the Cremona cemetery.
“The list of critical issues reported by citizens is literally endless. Not only. They write that they have asked the Municipality for interventions: nothing has been done”continues Portesani. “There are so many problems. The roofs and channels and downspouts need to be redone on most of the buildings. The restoration of marble coverings and events at risk of detachment in historic buildings. Extraordinary maintenance of plasters and finishes in general, including gates. Ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of greenery: arboreal and ground heritage. In some areas the grass is almost knee-high; in others, on the contrary, the flowers placed by relatives are cut indiscriminately. There are graves that are sinking. Trees that also tore down the marble structures. Nourished by the presence of guano from pigeons and other birds present in the same cemetery; especially in covered structures”.
“As the centre-right we propose a multi-year plan of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, urges the centre-right candidate. We plan to solve the problem of finding resources, which are huge, by permanently allocating a portion of the proceeds generated by the sector: the economic management of the cemetery is positive, but is now being used very badly. We have identified AEM as the entity that can implement this plan. But with particular checks on those who win the jobs. They have not always been up to the task”concludes Portesani.
