Messina, the mayor Basile: “Neither acquiescent nor partisan: the bridge is a supra -municipal work”

John

By John

They asked him not to be “neutral” and therefore to be “biased”. The part of the no bridge. The mayor Basile says he told the delegation of the Democratic Party, met on 4 June at Palazzo Zanca, the one that has been repeating for three years now: «The stable connection between the two banks of the Strait is a supra -municipal work, it was decided by the government and there is a law approved by Parliament. We ask, indeed we demand, that if this infrastructure must be achieved, the needs and instances of the city must be protected in the first place ». Basile had declared more or less the same things a few days earlier, on the occasion of the institutional visit to the Prefecture of the vice -premier and Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini: «Messina must be found ready at the beginning of the work for the bridge over the Strait. The task is not only due to politics but to the whole city. We have already activated a permanent table a year ago with all the professional bodies that are continuing to work. The acceleration that should take place after the yes of the Cipess, puts us in front of the awareness that already from the preliminary works, or by the checks of the geological investigations, it will be necessary to raise the bar of control and awareness “.
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