For the moment, no official replies have been received from the new Administration to Paolo Mascaro after Monday’s press conference, but it is probable that the long speech by the former mayor, held together with the former budget councilor Sandro Zaffina, was at least given due attention. It has already been said: if there was a fear of an open space for some controversy, this was not the case. At least, not as regards the deeper contents of the “accounts in the red” issue which, among many quotation marks, has emerged in recent weeks especially after the Administration’s urgent press conference on 11 November. The dissent and outright refusal on the part of the old administration seemed to be based rather on communication methodologies which perhaps underlie a different way of doing politics and administering. The “deficit” is not a debt, the “cuts” are not cuts, and, again, “the amount repaid has been increased, because 893 thousand euros were repaid in 2025 and almost 2 million 779 thousand euros for 2026-2027 – said Mascaro – the accounts therefore do not add up, there had been a previous error that needed to be corrected and the 893 thousand euros were not repaid in 2025”. Even drier is the question of the “free cash” which would amount to 7 million but which are always anchored to the relevant budget chapters. An initial response arrived on the social channels of councilor Mimmo Gianturco – who in the old council sat in the opposition – who, taking up a passage in which he is quoted by Mascaro, cuts the subject short: «Those who preceded us will also have been smart not to leave the money for bituminizing the roads, so as not to let the new administration spend it.
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