ALEXANDRIA – La Lega di Alessandria returns to shine the spotlight on the Amag Group. He is the leader of the League at Palazzo Rosso, Mattia Roggeroto advance accusations against the current administration on the “profound reorganization of the company’s companies aimed at opening up to private capital in Amag Ambiente, Amag Reti Gas and Amag Reti Idriche“.
This scenario, explains Roggero, risks starting the “sacrifice of jobs to make companies more attractive”with the addition of a possible “increase in the Tariwater and other services after the entry of the private partner“.
The League then announced that the party will move against it in the city council “there sale of water and gas networks, which represent the only true strategic asset of the Amag Group, and are a heritage of the entire Alessandria community. We are in favor of evaluating the creation of a provincial-sized multi-utility, starting with a water company. But it must be a company with totally public capital with the protection of the Group’s employment levels. Furthermore, Egato 6 has indicated 2034 as the date for superseding the current network contract. Why does the Democratic Party have such a desire to accelerate? Furthermore, I remind you, in this case, regular tenders of a European dimension will have to be called: it is not possible to move in a dimension of individual negotiation with this or that private partner“.
“The Amag Group has been sailing by sight for two years – states the leader of the League – between immobility and uncertainty. Innovative projects such as the smart city and the energy communities, which would have projected the Group into the European forefront, making it competitive and efficient, were scrapped due to ‘bias’, also with the risk of paying out millions in compensation. The center left has stood out, from September 2022 to today, only for the ‘circular’ of managers who were absolutely not suitable for us. The Group’s employees, to whom the League’s absolute solidarity goes, have been abandoned in ‘limbo’.
How many of these Alexandrian workers risk their jobsin the new organizational model that the mayor Abonante and the councilor Laguzzi have decided to endorse on the recommendation of their new consultants, and completely disavowing the work of the previous professionals, identified during the Rossa mandate, and which the center right from December 2019 to September 2022 did you decide to confirm precisely to give continuity to the organization and company projects?”.
Roggero concludes by underlining once again how much “for two years now the city has been dirty and abandoned, waste is everywhere, and we expect even worse in these summer months. On the other hand, the Tari has abnormal costs, and we would not want the same fate to befall water, with the new course prefigured by Abonante and Laguzzi. With the referendum of 12 and 13 June 2011, promoted by the left, 26 million Italian citizens agreed that water could no longer be profited from and that it should remain under totally public control and available to all.“. The leader of the League ends by asking himself whether “today Mayor Abonante still thinks so, or is preparing to hand over ownership and management of the networks to private individuals”.
