Although not new, the proposal has sparked a debate which, who knows, perhaps reflects the priorities of voters and elected officials in the area that marks the mountain border between the provinces of Vibo Valentia, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria. From the Serre, green lung and mystical soul of central Calabria, a voice is raised demanding “secession” from the Vibo provincial administration for a return to the future with the Catanzaro “mother”. A flurry of reactions was immediately unleashed, institutional and otherwise, but always through social media, from those who approve or disagree, from those who make distinctions and from those who always distrust, and therefore investigate what the hidden direction could be behind a rapprochement that one would even like to be anthropological, before being geographical and administrative. In short, there is no denying Ennio Flaiano’s over-the-top Italy which, once again, raises a serious but not serious issue: in a nation that has long since given up investing in its internal areas, which has consciously decided to let its spinal cord dry up, it is claimed that a change of Province, from one periphery to another, from one crisis to another, from one ruin to another, is enough to revive expired services, to guarantee rights denied, to complete eternal unfinished roads like the Trasversale delle Serre, to attract tourists who in reality have always been there and have never represented the manna expected since biblical times.
Few believe in more serious battles, such as the one against the accounting cuts that have annihilated the only hospital in the area for fifteen years. Except to support or delegitimize local committees that demand healthcare depending on the political convenience of the moment.
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