“The opposition groups in the city council in Lucca, starting with the Democratic Party and its group leader Francesco Raspini, do not miss an opportunity to attack, irresponsibly, both the mayor of Lucca and his majority because in their opinion it is wrong to say, late with respect to the fate of Geal and the future of water in Lucca, thus underlining a divisive and exclusively partisan and factional approach which risks jeopardizing the work of the Lucca administration aimed at playing, until the end, every card useful for Geal’s salvation and to build the conditions to bring together the entire water sector of the Lucca area under a single management”. As Massimiliano Baldiniregional councilor of the League together with Armando Pasquinelligroup leader of the League at Palazzo Santini.
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“It is a position – this one expressed by the Lucca PD or at least by a part of that party – which, on the altar of mere power positions in view of the next regional elections, ends up damaging and making more difficult the work that Mario Pardini and its administration in Lucca but also the League in Florence is weaving with painstaking patience to protect the Geal jewel and establish the conditions for reunification of the management of the water service in Lucca through the introduction of sub-areas on a provincial basis”.
“Together with the mayor of Lucca, we have under control all the administrative processes that concern the issue of water in our district – declares the group leader of the League, Armando Pasquinelli – we know which legal strategies to focus on to try to save Gealwe are in contact with Ait and we know well the procedural steps that will be started shortly, we are aware of the work done in the Commission with the many hearings carried out, we speak with all the references of the managers in the Province of Lucca – Geal, Gaia and Acque – as well as with the relevant municipal administrations and naturally we are in tune with the bill presented by the League in the Regional Council in Florence, first signed by our Councilor Massimiliano Baldini”.
“Therefore, contrary to what the opposition claims, we are not late but – continues Armando Pasquinelli – always differently from the Democratic Party and the Lucca left, we move with caution, with prudence and not rudely as the opposition and others have done in recent days, risking weakening the already difficult path started. Sand the Lucca PD has the future of Geal and the reunification of its water district at heart – adds Massimiliano Baldini – instead of shouting and attacking Mario Pardini, raise your voice at Palazzo del Pegaso and Palazzo Strozzi Sacrati and work to ensure that the League’s law proposal which determines precisely those conditions is brought up for discussion as soon as possible in the Regional Council and approved, also keeping water out of the multi-utility, instead of entrenching oneself in rearguard political battles to the advantage of a manager rather than another, depending on the fluctuation of the electoral purse of the seats”.
“In Lucca – conclude Massimiliano Baldini and Armando Pasquinelli – the Democratic Party must stop taking orders from Florence and must understand that the battle to save our precious water resource will be possible if broad convergences, even transversal, are brought about, united by belonging to its own territory and determined to assert the reasons and interests of Lucca against the usual excessive power of Florence”.
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