The president of the city council Gabriele Alberti intervenes regarding the alarm on post-flood funds launched in recent days by the mayors of the Democratic Party and addresses the centre-right mayoral candidate Gianni Cenni: “Instead of waiting every day what our candidate Bugetti says, help the city government to have certain answers, certain resources”. As stated by Alberti, “Since only part of the resources intended for emergency sums have arrived so far, the funds intended for reconstruction and state reimbursements for citizens and businesses are totally lacking. An intolerable situation which up to now has been contained only thanks to the Tuscany Region and the work of individual local administrations such as the Municipality of Prato. I understand candidate Cenni’s embarrassment in not being able to be critical, but he must tell this to the businesses and families who have suffered enormous damage. It is not a battle of the right or the left, it should be a collective commitment of the entire territory, especially of politics. Cenni helps the city government to have certain answers and resources.” Finally, Alberti specifies in a note that to date only the funds have arrived from the Government to cover the immediate costs of relief and those relating to interventions carried out in extreme urgency while the chapter of structural interventions and hydrogeological risk mitigation works remains uncovered. “In the province of Prato alone, 172 interventions are planned for a total amount of 83 million euros, interventions which at the moment have no economic coverage – concludes Alberti -. Finally, the issue of reimbursements to families and businesses, subjects who have only received contributions from the Tuscany Region and who are waiting to understand when the state ones will arrive. Ministers and undersecretaries of all kinds arrive in electoral campaigns but I would then like to really understand what remains in our territory. We are on the side of citizens and businesses and are ready to collaborate, but stop making fun of the people of Prato.”
