“What happened in the Regional Council with the Mercure plant is the most serious episode ever happened in Calabria since the Region exists. And Occhiuto, instead of clarifying his position and opening up to the confrontation with the territories, continues to lie to the Calabrians making it clear that the appeal of the law that blocks the control unit is an idea of Minister Calderoli, almost a spite for the positions taken on the ‘autonomy. Occhiuto lies twice: the first because the decision to challenge the law had been announced to the Council and the junta by the Ministry of the Environment. The second because on the differentiated autonomy to which it has always said yes and if the reform does not come to apply it depends exclusively on the decision of the Constitutional Court that has demolished its system “.
The councilors of the Pd group in the regional council on the sidelines of the press conference that took place in Lamezia Terme at the Regional Headquarters of the Party. The meeting with the reporters was summoned to explain the reasons that led the group of the Democratic Party to abandon the classroom on the occasion of the last session of the Assembly and denounce the arrogance of Occhiuto and the center -right that continue to trample the role and the dignity of the council, councilors and commissions.
The Parent Company Bevacqua opened the press conference by criticizing the authoritarian policies of the President of the Calabria Region and explained the position of the Democratic Party that would have liked to attract the law of the repeal of the amendment that blocks the central, as had been decided in the commission in the classroom. “Obviously – said Bevacqua – between Laghi and Occhiuto there is a pact materialized with the insertion of the surprise amendment the evening before the regional council in which the Omnibus law was approved. Never like this time the bottom was touched. Occhiuto violated the rules of democracy ». Furthermore, Bevacqua has stigmatized the pride with which the president decided not to listen to the mayors and local communities.
Franco Iacucci highlighted how the Mercure plant respects all environmental parameters, as certified by Arpacal. “The region proceeding thus if you don’t care about the workers already put in layoffs from Sorgenia which is ready to ask for damage for a closure that seems inexplicable”.
Giovanni Muraca, present for the Democratic Party in the Commission before the mess, underlined the confusion created in Ho in the regional council and the lack of clarity. “In the commission, as shown by the minutes, we were ready to withdraw our repeal proposal to save the control unit and sign that of the majority. Then something happened that blocked everything and that nobody has managed to explain so far. “
Amalia Bruni criticized the ambiguous position of Occhiuto, who is in favor of the alternating current environment: “Occhiuto is green on the Pollino, but in Gioia Tauro pushes for a regasifier”.
Raffaele Mammoliti in sharing the position taken by the Democratic Party spurred the center -left to act quickly “to build a real alternative of government to a center -right that betrayed the Calabrians. It is not possible to have sustainable development and be able to safeguard the work without dealing with the theme of the ecological and energy transition and without preparing a regional energy plan “.