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Gricignano (Caserta) – Those cited by are not personal but political reasons Joseph Direct who this morning, just over a month before the local elections, irrevocably resigned from the positions of deputy mayor and councilor with responsibilities for public works and cemeteries. Crucial, but above all “shocking”, as he himself underlines, was the adhesion of four members of the current majority (the councilors in office Alfonso Buonanno, Pasquale Dello Margio And Annamaria Pellegrinoand the Prime Minister, Maria Cristina Della Gatta) to the “wide field” led (even if it has yet been officially announced but there is no doubt) by the opposition leader Vittorio Lettieri.
Before going into the merits, Diretto prefaces: “My resignation is dictated by profound coherence and a civic sense of belonging to a coalition voted in the last electoral round by 70% of the citizens of Gricignano. Citizens to whom I must say infinite thanks for the institutional position I have held. They have been five long years of work, carried out with the utmost commitment, maximum availability and maximum transparency, with the sole aim of working every single day without sparing myself, for the good of our community”.
“I would like to thank – continues Diretto – several people, first and foremost my fellow citizens, those who voted for me and those who subsequently believed in me, giving me the opportunity to undertake this challenging but compelling experience of service to my city. I thank the city councillors, especially those with whom a relationship of mutual respect has been established. A dutiful thank you goes to the municipal secretary, the service managers and all the municipal employees, for the esteem and availability shown in every circumstance and with whom I tried to collaborate daily with a full sense of responsibility, despite the dynamic problems of the administration public.”
At this point, Diretto turns to the mayor Vincenzo Santagata: “The conditions of trust to be able to continue have disappeared. But the clear demonstration of lack of coherence and civic sense of belonging recently demonstrated by three members of your council still in office and by the president of the city council is shocking. In recent days, the news has been spread in the media that the four members of the majority will be part of a constituent list that opposes the current majority of which they are still part; list made up of our opponents perhaps headed by the current opposition group leader. News that so far has not been denied by those directly involved.”
“If this isn’t an inconsistency, dear Mayor, tell me what it is. But above all – insists the resigning deputy mayor – your incomprehensible silence is shocking, and, according to some well-informed people, your ‘blessing’ of this aberrant mutation. Therefore, it is also for this reason that I say enough, my collaboration with this now strange team still stubbornly guided by you ends here, but my future commitment to a future political-administrative experience certainly does not end here”. In this regard, we remember that Diretto is among the founders of the civic movement “Gricignano Project” which, after the alliance made with “Gricignano on the move” is in negotiations with the circles of Brothers of Italy, Civic Mind And After you to broaden the coalition to oppose Lettieri’s “wide field”.
