The meeting was held this morning at Palazzo Zanca, requested by the provincial secretary of the Democratic Party, Armando Hyeracewith the mayor Federico Basileto discuss the bridge project on the Strait of Messina.
The meeting took place in the presence of the deputy secretary of the Messina Democratic Party Maria Flavia Timbroof the municipal councilors Pd, Felice Calabrò, Antonella Russo And Alessandro Russothe dem Aurora Notarianni and Carmelo Briguglio in their capacity as technicians, and of the vice mayor Mondello and the general manager of the Municipality of Messina Salvo Puccio.
On this occasion, the Democrats reiterated the total opposition to the work from multiple points of view, also with respect to the failure to evaluate alternative solutions, and asking the administration to clarify what its position is in this sense.
During the appointment, the Delegation of the Democratic Party recalled how it was the mayor of Messina who asked for the suspension of the procedure in the conference of the services, and that the negative opinion to the great work whose realization would fall in the full nature reserve from the metropolitan city.
The Democratic Party stressed that while understanding the institutional duty expressed by the first citizen to follow a path dictated by a national law, it is also true that if The incomplete project from a technical point of view is considered as well as the seriously fallacious procedure from a legal/administrative point of viewit is the same law that provides the tools to oppose and avoid what is in all respects an announced disaster.
“Today, in fact, there is talk of overcoming environmental issues not with mitigation interventions but with a simple declaration in the name of priorities that would concern national security and public health, without however demonstrating any direct benefit in such areas in a concrete way. What would in fact be the priority or benefit to health or security that legitimize the irreparable devastation of the environment and of a unique ecosystem in its own kind, and such as to inflict to citizens. An unimaginable suffering due to construction sites with a seriously undersized impact?
“As far as the creation of the bridge still can be considered mere propaganda, or rather a political boutade of Minister Salvini, it is however a project that is already draining huge resources, subtracted from the territory and above all by blocking urban planning and another development of the city”, He continues.
At the end of the meeting, a technical and legal document was delivered to the Mayor, containing punctual observations on regulatory inconsistencies, environmental critical issues and design limits of the work. “We do not ask for symbolic manifestations – concludes Hyerace – but consistency between what has been declared and written, and what will be done. If you really recognize the limits of the work, you cannot remain neutral”.