The management of public competitions in the welfare sector lights the political clash at Palazzo dei Bruzi. Eight municipal councilors of the minority groups – Francesco Spadafora, Giuseppe D’Ippolito, Ivana Lucanto, Michelangelo Spataro, Francesco Caruso, Alfredo Dodaro, Francesco Luberto and Antonio Ruffolo – sign a very hard note against the guide administration Franz Carusoaccused of adopting “casual and family” criteria “in the selection of staff.
In the sights of the signatories there are the recent bankruptcy procedures for the welfare sector, which would have led to the hiring of close people, for family or professional ties, to the first citizen.
“The situation is serious, but it is not serious!” The note begins, which continues: “Our profound restlessness, now constant, concerns the ways in which the Municipality intended to proceed with the public selections of the welfare sector”.
The opposition councilors had immediately expressed perplexity on the method chosen for hiring: “From the start we had immediately highlighted the need to make use of external companies of national caliber precisely in order not to give rise to the” doubt “”, specify, adding that this choice would not have liked to represent a distrust of the municipal managers, but an option to “avoid any shadow on the integrity of the selective process, guaranteeing equal opportunities to all candidates with procedures aimed at transparency and meritocracy ».
The document emphasizes on some coincidences that, in the opinion of the signatories, risk compromising the credibility of the entire administrative machine: “We cannot ignore how among the winners they appear closely linked to the mayor Franz Caruso, both in family and professional terms”.
While recognizing the right to participate in competitions, the councilors underline that “those who live the world of institutions know well that in such circumstances the case of those who, enjoying close ties with those who govern, for reasons of mere opportunity, has not been uncommon in history, despite having the numbers to participate, has given up a priori to exploit job opportunities”.
To worsen the public perception there would be, according to the opposition, even previous political choices based on a certain ease: “From the beginning this administration has applied this criterion with the appointment of the head of cabinet, father of an assessor”, reads again.
A situation that for the eight directors “seriously undermines the image of the institution” and which requires a clear turnaround.
“We ask firmly that for the next competitions there is a change of course and that the administration has the courage to totally outsource each procedure to guarantee transparency and rigor”, the councilors write, which conclude by defining their “not a preliminary criticism, but a reference to responsibility and administrative ethics, principles that should characterize and guide those who govern our Cosenza”.