The history of Cosenza has been rewritten in just over a year. A year of changes and upheavals, visions and predictions, facts that have combined into a unique plot that has projected this land into a promise of renewal. In just over a year the Region has established the Faculty of Medicine at Unical (with the decisive collaboration of the rector Nicholas Leone), the project of a single city was launched, the location of the new Polyclinic was changed. A thirst for the absolute poured out on a large area, a fury that disoriented Palazzo dei Bruzi. The flaming prospects also marked the beginning of unprecedented institutional clashes. And it was precisely the choice to burn the project (inspired by the former centre-left governor, Mario Oliverio) of the university hospital in the area of the railway yard has become the fast-burning fuse that has blown up the pillars of diplomacy on which the projects of the great works were supposed to rest. The effort of the Municipality to trap the breath of the new “Annunziata” in Vaglio Lise was in vain. The vote of the Municipal Council was also in vain. The Region will build it in the “Rocchi” district at Unical, on land already available. The governor has no intention of stopping. On the sidelines of the inauguration of the new Emergency Room of the Hub, Roberto Occhiuto had announced the imminent meeting with the Inail manager for the funding set aside by the Institute.
But the story of the new Polyclinic at Unical returns with its nuances also in the project of a Single City that is running towards the arrival of February 2025. By the end of the month a Regional Council could be convened with the merger as the only topic under discussion. And yesterday he also returned to the subject Franz Carusoraising an alarm: «In the next session of the regional council, the center-right has decided to approve the rule for the announcement of the referendum for the institution of the single city between Cosenza, Rende and Castrolibero. We are in the presence of an evident forcing. The objective, therefore, is first of all to want a free hand to be able to exercise, as a regional council, the power to dissolve the municipal councils. A power that the constitutional charter and the ordinary laws of the state recognize to other bodies and certainly not to a regional council. A fact of unprecedented gravity that objectively attributes to the Region a power of blackmail towards all those mayors and council majorities not liked by the president of the council».