«I was very impressed by the tones used and the verbal violence that the President of the Region reserved for the opposition in the Regional Council, and in particular to the colleague of the M5s Davide Tavernise, in relation to the requests of greatest transparency on the Calabria Film Commission. To the president Occhiuto I feel to advise not to lose the lucidity and to always keep in mind the distribution of powers and institutional functions. He has the task of governing the Region and more than attacking the opposition or chasing the ghosts of the past, I would recommend respecting the division of functions and who, always in the context of his prerogatives and his mandate, legitimately exercises that of control “.
It is when he declares Antonio Lo Schiavo, president of the Mixed – freely progressive group, in relation to the Calabria Film Commission affair and the failure to transparency of the acts of the film promotion body of the Calabria Region.
For the regional councilor: “A majority legitimized to govern without the opposition that acts as a sting and supervises the work of those who, at that given, assumes the honor and the burden of the government of public affairs, cannot exist. It is democracy, beauty! The mandate of a free opposition, intellectually honest, courageous and uncompromising, is precisely to control the power of the majority, which cannot overflow or become absolute, pushing itself to the limits of the institutional rules and respect for the counterparty. Among the control functions, the checks are fully included on that which takes place in participatory companies and instrumental bodies, which over the years have proved to be almost always authentic factories of assignments, default and liquidations. And it is a decisive aspect because it is a question of verifying how the money of citizens of the poorest region in Italy is used and the community funds are intended in the region with the highest unemployment rate in Europe. That of control over expenditure, the positions and the results achieved, indeed it is the main and indispensable function to which an opposition councilor who wants to say such should fulfill. We will never back on this battle of transparency, on the contrary. Personally, I intend to fully exercise the functions of inspection union on Film Commission and on the other in -house bodies in all forms provided by the Statute and as well as the role of vice -president of the Supervisory Commission imposes me. Always in the objective of protecting the interests of the Calabrians in compliance with the mandate they attributed to me “.