«Today, in Parliament, a very serious thing happened: the Minister of the Environment Picket Fratin he lied by saying that the members of the Via commission who gave the opinion were those appointed by the previous government. It’s fake! In the minutes of the Commission it can be seen that the members appointed by the minister a few days before the vote on the opinion participated in the vote. Among these there is Dr. Alfredo Posteraro convicted for abandoning waste, the candidate for mayor of Perugia Scoccia expert in interior design, the municipal councilor of FDI Cuccioletta who has a company that installs elevators.
This is a fact, and it is not acceptable for a minister of the Republic to come to the Chamber to deny it. The people on the VIA commission appointed by the minister had just a few days to analyze five thousand documents. Who do you think you’re kidding?” As Angelo BonelliAVS MP and national co-spokesperson for Green Europe, at Question Time addressed to the Minister of the Environment Pichetto Fratin in a question on the Road to the bridge over the Strait of Messina.
«The problem is that the Ministry of the Environment – he continued – is in fact placed under the administration of the Ministry of Infrastructure. While you ask Italians for sacrifices, tonight you increased the funds allocated to the Strait of Messina Bridge by 1.4 billion euros. This is an unheard of shame.
I ask the minister to exercise his role and not to be appointed commissioner: be the Minister of the Environment, not an executor of other people’s decisions. I remember that Minister Salvini himself published a video in which he shows the Topolino bridge project. But it doesn’t tell the end of the Rockerduk Bridge story: the bridge is poorly designed and collapses. You are using Italian money to finance a project that has not been validated by any state body such as the Superior Council of Public Works which has been stripped of its authority”, he concludes.
On the Via per Strait Bridge Commission «Bonelli had the answer prepared in that sense. In reality I didn’t lie, I spoke about the instructor group and not the Via Commission when I mentioned continuity, saying that the training group was the same as there was before the renewal of the Commission”. This was stated by the Minister of Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichettoon the sidelines of the General States of the protected areas in Rome, responding to the accusations of the Avs deputy Angelo Bonelli today at question time in the Chamber. To Bonelli’s accusation of being “under a commissioner by Salvini”, Pichetto replied «I am not under a commissioner, because the Commission is independent of me. I closed my speech by saying that the Commission judged on the basis of its competences. It is a fact of technical-administrative evaluation which is not the responsibility of the political party. Bonelli had the pre-packaged answer and did not listen to what I said. We should also listen when the minister responds to Bonelli’s accusation of alleged incompetence and political appointment of some members of the Via Commission, the minister replied “they applied and were assessed based on the professional requirement”.