The Roccalumera city council avoids dissolution by one vote, but the political crisis only worsens. At 11pm yesterday, the chamber approved the permanently rebalanced budget for 2024-2028, an instrument aimed at restoring the institution after the financial crisis declared in April 2024 and which had to be adopted within three months of the appointment of the extraordinary liquidation body, which took place in June two years ago. The Council had been warned by the ad acta commissioner Francesco Riela to approve the resolution within 5 days, otherwise he would have acted in a substitute manner with the consequent forfeiture of the council body. The resolution received the four votes of the “surviving” majority councilors, while the three independents (Simona Saccà, Antonella Garufi and Claudia Gugliotta) who left the group last month abstained; The two minority councilors Massimo Bellomo and Tiziana Maggio are against, while group colleagues Maria Rosaria Sparacino and Francesco Santisi are in favor.
The Single Programming Document 2024-2028 was also approved, with the same outcome as the rebalanced budget. In closing, deputy mayor Antonio Garufi and councilor Natia Basile resigned, having moved to Fratelli d’Italia in December and had been at odds with the mayor for months, complaining of having been weakened in their work and asking for the mayor’s resignation, while councilor Claudia Gugliotta resigned as vice president.
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