The reshuffle of the regional council wanted by the Apulian governor is causing discussion Michele Emiliano. The two external members left the government team: the former Forzista Rocco Palese, councilor for health, and Anna Grazia Maraschio, Councilor for the Environment on the Italian Left. The three new faces are those of the lawyer Serena Triggiani who received the delegation for the Environment, waste cycle and reclamation, parks, industrial risk, housing policies, industrial crises and gender policies; by Viviana Matrangola who obtained the delegation to Culture, protection and development of cultural enterprises, legality and social anti-mafia; and the regional councilor of the Democratic Party Debora Ciliento who becomes head of the Department of Transport and Sustainable Mobility in place of the resigning Anita Maurodinoia, investigated in an investigation by the Bari Prosecutor’s Office into an alleged vote swap.
The centre-right
The reactions come both from the centre-right and from the centre-left. «Yesterday there was a mini reshuffle of the council: a rotation of seats requested by Schlein in the aftermath of the latest court case. The requests of the secretary of the Democratic Party to Emiliano were clear, all the newspapers talked about it for days. Emiliano replaced councilor Rocco Palese and councilor Anna Grazia Maraschio.” Thus the regional councilors of the Forza Italia group Paride Mazzotta, group leader, Napoleone Cera, Paolo Dell’Erba and Massimiliano Di Cuia. «The replacement of Palese – they add – has clear reasons: he responds to the request to restore a precise coalition perimeter, ergo without exponents coming from the centre-right. The replacement of councilor Maraschio, however, remains a mystery. We have never shared the political position of the Environment delegate, but we have always recognized that she is a respectable person with a strong left-wing background. So, why replace it? Emiliano didn’t give any explanation about it, but in our opinion it would be time to look clearly. And, above all, to ask Schlein: are you satisfied with this reshuffle? Do you believe that your requests have been fulfilled? If the answer were to be yes, it would not only be Emiliano pulling the wool over citizens’ eyes, but also his national secretary. Because, clearly, the mountain gave birth to the little mouse.”
Maraschio’s attack
And Maraschio herself attacks: «So the morality and legality operation of the Apulian regional council essentially ends with the departure of the undersigned. This is the signal of discontinuity that we want to convey. I reply with a smile. I thank the hundreds of people, administrators, citizens who are writing me certificates of solidarity, messages of indignation and pure bewilderment. I will not accept the position within President Emiliano’s staff, a hypothesis that was proposed to me and which I thank for the offer.”
«Between floating and sailing – he continues – I have always chosen the second option in my life, with the wind at my back and free from conditioning. Everything I have achieved has been thanks to the work culture, the only one that permeates me and to which I respond. The same culture that I brought to the department that I was honored to lead, made up of professionals that I would like to thank, together with my technical staff who are always at my side and the managers and officials who followed my vision. politics. I don’t deny anything and I don’t deny that they were beautiful, intense years, full of satisfaction but also hard. I often had to struggle alone, feeling like a white fly. In this whole affair, there is only one aspect that leaves a bad taste in my mouth: the abrupt interruption of a programming and planning process by the department, which went from environmental and climate protection measures to the of a new housing policy that not only considered houses but also people and their well-being. An impressive amount of measures, of revolutionary policies, which these lines would not be enough to list. When a path like this is interrupted, the risk is that the benefit could be for very few and the damage for many, many Apulian citizens. But I also feel another conviction: those who sow well reap the right ones and the sprouts will not be long in coming.”
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