All-out fight between Marco Ambrogio and Antonio Barile. Yesterday the audience celebrated Ambrogio, president of the City Council, and his wife Rosaria Succurro (present in the room and mayor from 2020 to 2025) together with nine of his “correct, fellow councillors”.
Applauded, honored, honored, in the large room of the political secretariat of the center-right group at the crossroads of via Panoramica graf Olivaro. Stadium cheering and Antonio Barile in the sights: «A mayor who is not capable of administering, and with him we have gone back 50 years and more».
In a good two hours, Barile was “shredded” both on a personal level: «He did not pay the taxes for a building that is not compliant and sold houses to the Municipality, and on an administrative level since he is a specialist in disasters. Do you know why we – Ambrogio asks – will not send the Municipality into bankruptcy? So as not to sink San Giovanni!».
But as expected, the main course, also awaited, was the “visit” of the DDA on Friday 2nd to the municipal offices. «No problem, on the contrary – continues Ambrogio – we are happy. In recent years we have had numerous “visits” many times, but here I want to remember that Rosaria Succurro, as president of the Province, bought a building to make it a police barracks in Cetraro, one of the towns with the highest rate of ‘Ndrangheta». In short, doors wide open to investigators «while others have had one of their advisors arrested, now a collaborator of justice. In short, Barile has no arguments and throws it on continuous provocation, weighing down the climate even on respectable people such as city councilors.”
A river in flood Ambrogio. Who tells how Barile “does not love beauty and has already destroyed the city in 4 months”. Show cards and documents. And in one there is the report of the proceeds of fines, produced above all by the inspector of the southern junction of the Paola-Sila-Crotone which reports any insurance expiry and car inspection which brought in 2 million 330 thousand euros «while for parties the Succurro administration (of which he was first head of cabinet and then in the last remnant councillor) spent 2 million, with a good impact for San Giovanni».
The “parallel convergences” of Barile-Ambrogio continue on a dead-end road. Dark, narrow and steep. With Ambrogio and his advisors all beside him «who are not resigning immediately but want to see the papers. Yes, because the longer Barile stays in the municipality, the more it wears out.” Strategy, or a game of massacre with the city, you might say? And when some reporter asks him why don’t you resign then?
Ambrogio is peremptory: «The 2025 financial statement closed on December 31st, the council approved the financial statement with the debts and now we await the auditors’ report, after which we will decide why the debt determined by the Succurro administration is less than 1 million. However, he could also resign.” Whatever happens, there is no light in sight. And excluding the supporters or fans, however you prefer, the common citizen is also starting to be disenchanted and bored.