“Calabria does not need welfare, it does not need an income of dignity which, however, would not even be financed with European funds, but needs to show the country which is an extraordinary region, with great resources”. This was stated by the resigning president of the Calabria Region and re -established Roberto Occhiuto in a video call with the room where the UDC lists to the regional ones were presented by the secretary of the party Antonio De Poli and the President Lorenzo Cesa.
«His problems – he added – we know them, and also well, some have solved them others we will exceed them in the coming years. But when we talk about Calabria we talk about a region we love and therefore we talk about it well. For too long, however, of Calabria there was talk in a negative key, of the ‘ndrangheta that sucks everyone and indeed congratulates the DDA of Reggio for today’s operation. But the fact that there is the ‘ndrangheta must not become an alibi to say that in Calabria nothing can be done ».
“Calabria – said Occhiuto – is a region that has extraordinary resources, which certainly needs reforms and we have made many, like that of the reclamation consortia, which were 11 slums and which we reduced to one. We made the reform of the waste and I would like the Calabrians to remember how this region was in 2021, with the garbage that even accumulated up to the first floor of the buildings because the mayors were not known where to dispose of it. We put hospitals that were on paper like that of Sibaritide, which is almost finished. We are building others. So we did a lot compared to the past. Of course, we are telling the Calabrians that we do not have the magic wand, that we have not faced all the problems, but that we apply to do it and solve them ».
“In a civilized country – concluded Occhiuto – we do not resign for a guarantee notice. In a civilized country, the investigations not exploited by the jackals to invent the most vomitable fake news and try to defeat, through this street, opponents who otherwise would not beat. I happened to see that in my administration there were managers who saw me as a crippled president. And therefore I said to myself: we make the Calabrians decide who must deal with the future. This wanted to do, to avoid a year of immobility ».