Looking at the political events of Reggio with the aristocratic detachment of someone who knows he has paid a very high price for having been a free man (as the title of his book states), Peppe Scopelliti returns to meet his people in a packed “Porto Bolaro” and does not spare criticism of the center-left (as would be natural in the political dialectic) but also of the center-right (which is unnatural in the same political dialectic).
But Scopelliti is like this, he’s now unleashed, and if he sees something he doesn’t like he says so: «I had the impression that in the city, in the last ten years, a large part of the centre-right has not been very different from the centre-left. And this is a situation that is not good not only for the center-right but above all for the city. We need a new ruling class, a serious ruling class who knows how to distinguish things well.”
Then, looking back, he asks a question that will have to be answered: «Everyone knows that I served the last months of my sentence by working outside of prison, as required by law. Everyone, however, does not know that the Court’s decision arrived later than it should have because the Metropolitan City opposed my request. I would like to know if the leadership of the Metropolitan City had a role in this affair.”