“The mayor informed us on Monday evening that we are probably out of the council. A decision that we consider unfair and incomprehensible because we received more votes than other forces. Mezzetti should think again.” Bitter appeal from the representatives of Modena civica yesterday to the mayor. The city councilor Katia Parisi and the first of the non-elected Rosario Maragò have officially confirmed the indiscretions of these hours: they are the sacrificial lamb. “Mezzetti – Maragò attacks – said in the interview that whoever entered the Council had the right to be a councilor. He is contradicting himself. He expressly told us that he would keep us out not for a question of experience and skills, but because, based on in his words, the Democratic Party has made agreements with other political forces in view of the next regional elections (Action is inadmissible for us given that we received 2,686 votes, 400 more than Action, we do not understand why representation is not guaranteed). who achieved a better result.” Nor can the argument that Mezzetti gave us to open lines of dialogue with the Democratic Party to try to recover a place on the council be valid, because the council is made by the mayor, not the Democratic Party. We rejected the possibility. The responsibility for this possible The decision is exclusively Mezzetti’s, it cannot be passed on to the Democratic Party or other forces, the mayor should review his position.” And the possibility of compensating for the absence in the team with other institutional roles? “Those times that we met we only talked about the council and delegations. We were asked if we were interested in other roles, but we are interested in representing the citizens in the bodies where decisions are made, therefore in the municipal council”.
Parisi recalls that “the citizens also voted for us because they knew that if we had entered the Council we would then have been represented in the council: this breach would be a bit like betraying those who voted for us. We believe that our presence is very important in the executive citizen because we are the only civic list represented in the Council. We ask the mayor to think again, it would be the first time in the history of Modena that a majority force represented in the Council did not join the executive. We called the press conference precisely to invite the mayor to think about it again.” At Modena Civica in recent hours, when word of the exclusion began to spread, “messages of solidarity arrived from the secretary of the Democratic Party Federica Venturelli, from the group leader Antonio Carpentieri and from the mayor Gian Carlo Muzzarelli”. At this point, if Modena civica were to be excluded, would it also leave the majority? Parisi takes his time: “It’s premature to say it now. This is a political decision that we will take after the team is made official.”
Modena civica also entrusted its protest to a post on Facebook which we report below in which it accuses the mayor of “palace games” and refers to the decision to include Action “in exchange for support in the next regional elections, therefore a council created for electoral reasons outside Modena and not in the interest of the citizens of Modena and their vote!”.
