Bruno Bartoloretired nurse, Mayor of San Luca From 2019 to 2024, last year he met citizens to communicate his renunciation to recover. «I leave reluctantly but I no longer have the strength – he said – it was five terrible years for me. Five heavy years in every sense. Some institutions did not give me the help I had to have. Some critical issues should be helped not massacred. In recent years I have felt very alone, abandoned. Not from everyone. I hoped until the last that some young people would collect the witness, but nobody felt it. I expected a group of young people to join to make a new administration. In San Luca there are more than 200 graduates, lawyers, engineers, doctors, there is everything. But they are not going on, there is an opposition to commit themselves to the municipality. There is resignation. We take a step forward and fifty back – Bartolo said again – you need to invest more on school. San Luca needs a strong school, which instructs and educates children, involving families. It is not said that in six months or a year we do not change their mind, but with the precise commitment by the institutions that must be closest to us. And if you really make young people go on ».
A few weeks after the missing municipal elections of 2014, the anti -mafia access commission, ordered by the Minister of the Interior, was settled, Matteo planted, on the proposal of the Prefect of Reggio Calabria, Clara Vaccaro. At the end of the control activity, the Commission presented a report with the proposal to dissolve the Municipality for alleged conditioning by organized crime. Proposal that the Council of Ministers in recent days has accepted.
And so, in San Luca, between one dissolution and another, it will continue to vote every now and then. The next electoral appointment could arrive in the autumn of 2026, or in the spring of 2027. Meanwhile, as if that were not enough, the Prefecture of Reggio Calabria in recent weeks has dissolved the Board of Directors of the “Corrado Alvaro Foundation”, appointing the former president of the Court of Appeal of the capital Reggio Luciano Gerardis.
The controversies, analyzes and appeals are not lacking. All this, however, evidently is not enough. And the impossibility of carrying out the administrative elections continues to represent, year after year, a defeat for democracy. “The Calabrians want to be spoken,” said the writer and journalist Corrado Alvaro, born in San Luca. Perhaps, one could start here.
