Memory, future, progress, history. “It makes, it doesn’t erase”. The “no” to the single city rises loudly from Campagnano and, even before that, to the referendum scheduled in just a few days and just as many hours. Hotel San Francesco packed for the last appointment of an intense electoral campaign. “Thank goodness the Committee was there, otherwise the yes vote would have won hands down…”, says more than one before the start of the political event. In the front row the mayor of Castrolibero, Greco, accompanied by the deputy and some councilors. “We are closing an intense campaign, in which there were many meetings with the citizens of Rende: Commenda, Ceep, Surdo, Piano Monello, Quattromiglia, Nogiano, San Ianni, Pietà and Viale dei Giardini. Citizens are now fully aware of the disasters that this anti-democratic, anti-economic and top-down merger risks causing not only to Rende, but also to Castrolibero and to Cosenza itself”, reiterated the various protagonists of the committee. The “big” ones sitting in front and not on stage. Among the people. “To the greedy and predatory caste, capable of moving only in the shadows through transversal agreements, fake news and favors to the usual strong powers, we respond through healthy and clear democratic debate, true Politics made from below, with assemblies, public meetings, flyers, clear and, why not, animated discussions. The citizens of Rende and the urban area must regain control of healthy politics and give a strong signal to this inconclusive and incompetent caste. From tomorrow we start again more recharged and determined than ever”, the clear message. And then, again. “Politicians lie knowing they are lying, academics must tell the technical and legal truth without getting caught up in ambitious impulses of a different nature. In every merger the new entity takes over the active and passive legal relationships of the participants, assuming their rights and obligations and continuing in all the acts prior to the merger.
In the first balance sheet following the merger, the assets and liabilities of the participants are recorded at the values resulting from the accounting records on the effective date of the merger itself”, is instead one of the most emblematic steps. “The disastrous collapse of Cosenza is fully part of the merger and produces its effects like any other legal relationship,” they argue. Why vote no? “Cosenza, in addition to the bankruptcy debt of over 300 million euros, has a residual liability of over 90 million euros for liquidity advances to cover “current expenditure”.
