The disagreements of the recent past forgotten, or almost. The very harsh clashes, in the belligerent climate of the electoral campaign, completely archived, or almost. In any case, a unity of intent and objectives has been recreated as in the times when Cateno De Luca he was mayor of Messina, Matilde Siracusano deputy who supported the initiatives of the municipal administration and Marcello Scurria president of the Recovery Agency. All three, Scurria, De Luca and Siracusano, were sitting at the table in Government Palace on Saturday morning, together with the prefect Cosima Di Stanithe mayor Federico Basile and the president of the “Suburbs” parliamentary commission, Alessandro Battilocchio.
It was Scurria himself, in his capacity as sub-commissioner for the implementation of the special law, the one who allocated 100 million euros for the territorial rehabilitation and redevelopment interventions in the slum areas, who wanted Cateno De Luca to intervene, for the essential role that he played, as mayor of Messina, in that fiery summer-autumn-winter season of 2018. And De Luca started right from there, from that July-August six years ago, «when I signed the ordinances that established the clearing and elimination of all the shacks in Messina». It was a motivated measure but obviously it was a “provocation” on a political level, because we knew that it would be impossible to get rid of everything, in a few months, and give homes to the thousands of families still residing in the “shantytowns” of our home.
