As a boy who played on the stream and in the woods of the small Nebroideo municipality of San Salvatore di Fitalia to a decisive element of the political and administrative life of the city of Messina. It cannot be said that Marcello Scurria has not left his markin his, sometimes incredible, turns on the Russian mountains, who led him to be: communist, socialist, “Bottarian” (he has always had a profound bond with the complacent Angela Bottari and the group that headed the Hon. Gioacchino Silvestro and the former regional deputy Filippo Panarello), the last city secretary of the Left Democrats, near the junta led by Francantonio Genovese (in which Angela Bottari was the councilor with the Priprio delegation to the renovation), Expert of the center -right junta led by the Mayor of National Alliance Peppino Buzzanca, Consultant of Cateno De Luca, his “Spin Doctor” In the 2018 electoral campaign, president of Arisme under his union, finally appointed by Renato Schifani Subcommissario for the renovation, thanks to the decisive role played by the parliamentarian of Forza Italia, Matilde Siracusano.
“I have always been a leftist man, in my roles and assignments I have always kept the straight bar, and the battle to give a dignified house to thousands of shacking families is the most leftist thing, which I have ever done in my life” , said some time ago, the former president of the renovation agency, that “creature” born as a result of the parliamentary action of Cateno De Luca at the Ars, but under his technical-legal direction. On the other hand, the proposal to give birth to a special agency for renovation, which exceeded the conflicts of competence between the Autonomous Institute of Popular Houses and the Municipality of Messina, had made it the same Scurria already at the beginning of the years Two thousand, when he collaborated with the mayor Buzzanca.
Just with Buzzanca, as well as with De Luca after several years, Relationships were marked by a sort of “hatred and love”. Perhaps many have forgotten it, but it was Scurria, a talented administrative lawyer, who supported the popular action for the decline as mayor of Peppino Buzzanca, following the sentence for the improper use of the blue car when he was president of the province. Buzzanca Decadde, Scurria was considered almost a hero by the Messina left. On the other hand, he had been the secretary of the DS, halving himself when there was the merger between the former Communist Party and the Margherita of Rutelli.
From that moment, the journey on the Russian mountains begins. Deposting every grudge, Buzzanca calls Scurria as a consultant, when he returns to be the mayor of Messina, guiding a right-center junta. Then, after a time interval, the unavailable guest appears on the Peloritan political scene, that Catero De Luca on which no one would have bet a euro, in that April 2017, when he announced that he wanted to apply for mayor in the administrative of 2018. Nobody, except those of his group and he, the lawyer Scurria, convinced that the former mayor of Fiumedinisi and Santa Teresa would have led the “revolution” to Palazzo Zanca and in the city. Present to his rallies, “Shadow” Councilor, Scurria made his official entry into the DE Luca Administration as an expert free of charge, “for legal advice on local finance”. The same assignment that Buzzanca had given him in 2012.
But Scurria had always cultivated the dream of being able to make its contribution to the restoration of the Messina slums. “Since the times when, together with Angela Bottari and the then president of the Capodicasa region, we brought Romano Prodi to visit the background barracks,” he said a few years ago. And here he is, appointed by De Luca, president of the new Arisme. Since then, 7 years in a row to deal with the slums, up to the special powers, granted, and now revoked, by Commissioner Schifani. And in this regard, Scurria adds a note to what has been said yesterday morning at the press conference: «It is not true that they were waiting for my answers before proceeding with the revocation of the assignment. It is written in the provision signed by Schifani: “What happened irreparably affects the trustee relationship”. I transmitted my “memory” to Palazzo d’Orleans, but everything had already been decided since last December ».
