If it’s not a record, we’re close. Twenty-one city councilors present, twenty-one votes against. A precise, even political, signal that the Chamber of Palazzo Zanca evidently wanted to give after the controversy of recent weeks on the complex “Zanklon” operation, and also on the many absences that had characterized, in part, the previous votes.
This time, no games, no strategies: all the political groups, until late in the evening, were represented in the city council and they all voted against the most impactful of the three projects presented by the company of the entrepreneur Natale Giostra, to be allocated to student residences and financed with Pnrr funds from the Ministry of University and Research: the twelve-storey building complex (of which ten above ground) right behind the Archimede high school, on Viale Regina Margherita. The “Centro” project, planned in via Catania, had the same fate on Tuesday. In the end, therefore, only the “Policlinico” project in Minissale remains standing, for a total of 504 beds (and funding of almost 10 million euros).