If someone thought that the political management of Palazzo dei Leoni would continue without jolts even after the election of the metropolitan council, it was wrong. The mayor Federico Basile – and the leader of his party, Cateno De Luca, probably a true recipient of certain lunges – has a new thorn in his side and is called Carmelo Pietrafitta, mayor of Mazzarrà Sant’Andrea. The fact that the latter is a metropolitan councilor of Forza Italia and that is part of the “current” led by Marco Falcone and Tommaso Calderone, then expands the horizon of the triggered political controversies, leading up to the relations between De Luca himself and the president of the region Renato Schifani (criminals from many right within the center -right and right inside Forza Italia) and possible future scenarios of alliances all in becoming. On the subject, moreover, just cauldron, recently, he was rather clear: “Before allacing with us, De Luca will have to apologize for possessions called” Banda dachshund “of politics”. Single sender, multiple recipients. Returning to Pietrafitta, after the first warning on Basile’s lack of obligations after the election of the Metropolitan Council (the Region awaits an answer on the merits), here comes another blow, targeted straight to the heart of the mayor’s entourage: the general manager of the Metropolitan City Pippo Campagna. Which is a very faithful historian of De Luca, the summit of the ASM that, in Taormina, became the main rib of the municipality administered by the southern leader called Nord. And the compatibility between these two roles – general manager of Palazzo dei Leoni and President of ASM – is questioned by Pietrafitta, who with a question formally asked the mayor to answer. Opening a new front.
Following the article “DG of Palazzo dei Leoni and President of ASM” is there incompatibility? “Published in Gazzetta del Sud on Wednesday 11 June 2025, we receive and publish the following reply of the Metropolitan Mayor Federico Basile.
“No incompatibility of Dr. Campaign”. The response to the questioning of the councilor Pietrafitta signed by the Metropolitan Mayor Dr. Federico Basile
“With regard to the content of the interrogation signed by the Councilor Pietrafitta, the response to the question by the Metropolitan Mayor Dr. Federico Basile is transmitted to the question.
Preliminarily, however, the fact that, as in part emerges from the feedback note, the question in question is poorly asked for a whole series of evidence, cannot be subtracted.
Firstly, the Councilor addresses his inspection act to the “Mayor of the Metropolitan Council”, highlighting that he has hastily forgotten that the mayor is from the metropolitan city and not of the Council which is an organ of the supra -municipal body.
In addition, despite the interpretation of the press bodies that come to the rescue to the error of the councilor and imagine that one wanted to report to the ASM of the Municipality of Taormina, prof. Pietrafitta indicates – also hastily here – an unspecified and non -existent “Metropolitan Services Company of Messina”, to conclude, then, its inspection act with the indication of non -existent legislation.
Given everything above, you want to reassure the questioning councilor who, as in detail indicated in the feedback note, Dr. Campaign plays the role of general manager of the metropolitan city of Messina in a way as well as, of course, legitimate, compatible, given that there is no cause of irreproversability of the assignment nor, much less, of compatibility of the same, as in a specific and detailed way is indicated in the response to its inspective act.
If the councilor had considered to document himself, with the simple and trivial methods indicated in the response he could well have verified this.
Indeed, these are not the incompatibility of dr. Campaign, but of non -knowledge by the interrogation of the national legislation, of what the companies and/or entities of the metropolitan city and the facts subject to the curious question are “.