A crisis of dialogue. Two municipal councilors of the Democratic Party, Francesco Alimena and Giuseppe Ciacco they take paper, pen and inkwell and on divisive theme of the One City take an unequivocal position.
«In Calabria, and here in Cosenza, there is no political centre-left and no judicial centre-left. There is only one center-left, which, on the subject of the urban area, speaks, with the Democratic Party at the head, the exact same language, declining the exact same watchword: the firmly convinced yes to the single city and the clear dissent towards a “bogus” referendum, because it is merely consultative and not binding. To be serious, we must ask the center-right why it had to modify the law with which, instead, the cities of Corigliano-Rossano and Casali del Manco were born. If the real objective had been that of the single city, by this date, the merger with the interested and consenting municipalities could have already been achieved. Instead, the referendum that the center-right wants is a real mockery of the citizens. And, then, let’s put an end to maliciously captious interpretations, which mystify, by altering it, the reality of things. In the Democratic Party itself, there is not, substantially, a single dissenting voice: we all agree in considering the proposed law for the merger of the three Municipalities a legal and political disgrace. And against this disgrace, all the articulations and different expressions of the progressive camp have mobilized coherently. In the Regional Council, the opposition groups have mobilized, with the Pd group, which through a fruitful institutional dialogue, has imposed a review of the implementation times, with a view to harmonizing the complex bureaucratic dynamics of the merger. Here in Cosenza, the Pd city circle and the majority coalition of the City Council, have loyally supported all the initiatives undertaken by the municipal executive, to confront and neutralize a farcical referendum, the result of a brazenly illiberal approach, which wants to impose the conurbation through a wicked coercive path, which has deprived the powers, prerogatives and competences of the respective City Councils. And, then, there is no point in beating around the bush: in essence, the entire center-left is in solidarity, intent on building, virtuously, the “how” to make it a single city, placing it within a framework that enhances, on the one hand, institutional concertation and, on the other hand, effective and authentic democratic participation. Because, by avoiding authoritarian tendencies, which forcefully exclude local institutions, as our Mayor, Attorney Franz Caruso, so graphically argues, “the problem is one of values and rules”! ».