“We applaud the initiative of the Reggio prosecutor’s office which has highlighted pathological relations between the world of politics and the criminal world, relations which involve prominent political exponents of the Reggio parterre. Immediately after, a festival began peppered with hypocrisy and oriented declarations mainly on two possibilities: Commission or Resignation; a superficial, instinctive approach more like a fan than a political analyst. From the published wiretaps, there appears to be a political mix of crime detrimental to the principles of democracy, legality and ethics, and unfortunately we also see the figure of the young woman involved. political promise of the Mayor’s scion. The fact that such serious acts emerge only at the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office, confirms once again the inability of the current parties to fulfill the mandate of opposition and therefore of control, one of the cornerstones of the democratic spirit, controls that must precisely to stem any natural tendencies on the part of those who administer power. Where were the opposition councilors when the scion favored the hiring of the son-in-law of a well-known baton chief? Why over the years have the aforementioned councilors not noticed the anomalies of various kinds that have characterized the work of the young scion? (anomalous budgets, ambiguous hiring, off-budget expenses, etc.) And by chance of the failure to dismiss the relative of the Chief of Staff, the opposition councilors were distracted by what?”, This was stated in a note by the Calabria Region Coordinator of Sovereign Popular Democracy, Giuseppe Modafferi.
“It is touching to now see a (false and hypocritical) outcry inviting the scion to resign in the name of “love” for the city. Do those who make this request have a clear understanding of the moral, human profile of the interlocutor? At what moment of his clouded administration has shown a minimum of love towards the city and citizens? If they had analyzed better they would have opted for other more impactful solutions (providing documents to the citizens, prosecutor’s office, Prefecture on the rottenness accumulated in 10 years of Administration). Hamlet-like doubt that grips the city: Commission Yes – Commission No, DSP analyzes the problem from another aspect: the urgency of having real knowledge of the facts, an operation of transparency, clarity, on what the administrative reality of the city is from 2014 to today. Too many shadows, ambiguities and a condition of the city with third world standards”, the note continues.
“We therefore ask that the institutional control bodies activate all the necessary initiatives to verify whether there have been actions detrimental to democracy and citizenship, that those responsible be identified and possibly condemned quickly with the foreseen sanctions. Reggio is a beautiful city, the people of Reggio are citizens who suffer (not through their responsibility) inconveniences caused by incompetence and backyard profiteering, in this historical phase what we need is a return to political honesty, a value that is general and does not belong to pre-established factions , an honesty that leads to an administration oriented towards the good and quality of life of the people of Reggio Emilia. We conclude with a thought from Benedetto Croce on honesty in politics: “… it is nothing other than political ability: like the honesty of the doctor and of the surgeon is his ability as a doctor and surgeon, who does not ruin and murder people with his own ignorance seasoned with good intentions and varied theoretical knowledge”. Beyond any technical bureaucratic expedient we ask for the restoration of conditions of Political Honesty, on which to restart the political, social and economic reconstruction of the city”, concludes Modafferi.
