«The start of construction of the Bridge will be a major operation against the Ndrangheta. Where there is work, there is hope for the territories and the ndrangheta takes root less. Of course, the State will have to ensure that not even a single euro of public money ends up in the wrong pockets, and for this reason we have investigators and law enforcement agencies capable of doing so.” Matteo Salvini, Minister of Transport, said this, speaking at the Largo Botteghelle market in Reggio Calabria, where he arrived to support the candidate Francesco Cannizzaro. «I think – he added – that the ndrangheta would not be happy with the fact that so many kids could have a job here. Sunday’s vote, therefore, is a vote for the yes to the Bridge.”
«45 thousand requests for work have already arrived at construction sites that have not yet started, from Calabria and Sicily, for the Bridge. Tell me – he continued – how many Calabrian young people, including architects, engineers, surveyors, lawyers, are leaving Reggio Calabria today because they have no work and, instead, with a construction site that will provide tens of thousands of jobs they would remain here”.