Liguria. Davide Natale, regional secretary of the Democratic Party, returns to launch an appeal to all forces, political and otherwise, interested in rebuilding a new model of Liguria after the storm of the corruption investigation.
“Liguria is a region that has been rushing towards disaster for years: on a healthcare level, with dilapidated hospitals, interminable waiting lists, wild privatisations; on the environmental one, with the project of a regasification terminal incompatible with our region, the construction of resorts in Palmaria, waste management without prospects; and on a social level, an increasingly older region with an increasingly lower quality of work that pushes its young people to emigrate. This investigation overwhelms the credibility of those who represent the institutions and confirms what we have always denounced: Toti’s Liguria is a region for the few and very rich”, he writes in an intervention.
“With institutions humiliated and political and social forces weakened, the rights of the weakest, of marginal territories, of those who do not live on income are more at risk. A true democracy, a social democracy, needs reliable institutions and strong participation in decision-making processes. The antidote to oligarchy is popular participation,” underlines Natale.
“Parties that are weak and disconnected from the real needs of the community are easily scalable by those who claim to assert particular interests without dealing with mediation for the pursuit of the general interest – he continues – the vaccine against this oligarchy, interested only in its own profit, are women and the men of our region, with their intelligence, sensitivity, capacity for work and rebellion in the face of injustice. If they regain possession of the political forces, the social forces, the spaces for debate and comparison, Liguria will emerge from this humiliating season stronger and more just. The Democratic Party assumes this responsibility.”
“It is necessary to bring together the best forces in this region on two fundamental objectives: a clear break with the state of things that have fully revealed themselves in recent weeks and, at the same time, prevent the end of a closed and opaque system from overwhelming the Ligurian economy and society, causing a stalemate that would risk making businesses, workers, families and citizens who are completely unrelated to this matter pay the bill”, adds the Pd regional secretary.
“We ask the political forces, the entire world of associations, those representing businesses, the trade unions, third sector operators, the world of professions and universities to immediately open a discussion to define the ways and times of a effort capable of producing the necessary impulse to bring about a political and democratic turning point that can once again put the interests of our region at the centre. Let’s take action immediately to build the Liguria of the future”, concludes the dem Natale.
