“On the high railway speed, the Meloni government has inflicted a very hard blow to Calabria and the entire South. Cynical and Baro, the center -right executive continues to consider the South a pure tank of votes, as the intermediate ratio on the infrastructures presented in the Chamber certifies: 11 billion and 363 million euros canceled to the South, of which 9.4 billion stolen from Calabria of high railway speeds up to Reggio “. The PD Calabria, led by Senator Nicola Itoto, denounces him in a note.
“It is a shameful snatch, which – the Calabrian dem continue – unmasks the hypocrisy of the right to the government and the deafening silence of President Occhiuto. Other than extraordinary Calabria: we are in front of the most ordinary of humiliations, perpetrated with the opportunistic endorsement of those who, instead of defending the interests of the Calabrians, prefer to remain aligned for personal benefit”.
“This very serious fact – adds the PD Calabria – makes the project of the bridge over the Strait, a pharaonic work, economically devastating and useless on a strategic level” even more crazy and senseless “. “The cancellation of high speed for Calabria is yet another confirmation – observes Irto – of the political and institutional subordination of the Calabrian center -right. Never as now, Calabria is put to the margins. But we continue to fight because – he concludes – we want the redemption of our community”.
The mayor of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Falcomatà denounced the definition of a vital work for the transport system in the South and in Calabria in the City Council: “a strategy now clear that of the government which, with the complicity of a regional government unable to defend the interests of the Calabrians, wants to cut the growth prospects of our region with a coup d’uta”. “The news of the Cassation from the PNRR report on the strategic infrastructures of over 9 billion concerning high speed – continues – certifies what we have been denouncing for months: this government is a disaster for the South and for Calabria”. The mayor denounced the cut of resources during today’s meeting of the City Council in Reggio Calabria.
“In 2024 – explained Falcomatà – the PNRR, integrated with the complementary national plan provided for infrastructure works for 82.8 billion, but a few weeks ago – underlines the mayor – stimulating the words of the ministers Matteo Salvini and Tommaso Foti, the Ministry of Infrastructure has updated the economic programming by cutting more than 9 billion for the project relating to the high speed of Salerno – Reggio Calabria, in fact putting a tombstone on a work that could have reduced the gaps in terms of development between the north and south of the country “.