Stop the Municipality. “The Commissioner’s Redevelopment Structure – we read in a press release – while appreciating the laudable “Rigenera Messina” initiative, recalls the provisions of art. 11 ter of Legislative Decree no. 44 of 1 April 2021 “Urgent measures for the slums of Messina” which attributed special powers and related financing to the Extraordinary Commissioner of the Government. In particular, paragraph 8 of the law provides as follows: “The Extraordinary Commissioner acquires the Municipality’s proposals of Messina in the manner and within the terms established by the Commissioner himself” and “The Extraordinary Commissioner carries out investments useful for the rehousing of people residing in the perimeter area, including the purchase and contribution to the assets of the Municipality of Messina of properties to be used as residential units”.
“Therefore, the Extraordinary Commissioner – President of the Region Renato Schifani – we read again – awaits any proposals from the Municipality of Messina to be acquired, also recalling that, as per paragraph 5 of the law, it is always the Extraordinary Commissioner who is responsible for preparing a plan of interventions envisaged by paragraph 1 to be implemented within the limits of available resources. Finally, it is recalled that paragraph 1 of article 11 ter appointed the Extraordinary Commissioner and President of the Region in order to implement the urgent measures for the slums of Messina, namely: removal, disposal, rehabilitation, reclamation and environmental redevelopment. These necessary premises in order to give suitable direction to the albeit worthy initiative of the Municipality of Messina, but so that this proposal is not reduced to “a mere didactic exercise”, the Commissioner’s Structure is forced to postpone any decision, within the scope of the provisions of the special law and the tasks assigned, to obtaining the resources necessary to implement any intervention”.