Unique city and referendum, the Italian Left breaks the silence. And it does so with a document drawn up by the assembly of the urban area club. A document written by the spokesperson, Antonio Curcio. The openness to the merger between the three municipalities is evident but subjected to a series of conditions. Maria Pia Funaro, former deputy mayor of the capital and a prominent exponent of the political formation, had already expressed herself favorably on the birth of the large municipality.
On the centre-left, the regional Democratic Party is leading the battle for the Single City through the action of the group leader at Palazzo Campanella, Mimmo Bevacqua, and the vice-president of the assembly, Franco Iacucci. With them are the Calabrian secretary Nicola Irto and the provincial secretariat, led by Vittorio Pecoraro. The Dems have decided to set up the “Yes Committees” entrusting their coordination to the former parliamentarian Giacomo Mancini.
But let’s go back to the Italian Left. Here is what Curcio underlines: «The assembly of the Circolo dell’Area Urbana di Sinistra Italiana, following the study carried out by the specific working group, after extensive debate which took into account all the positions expressed by the members, reiterates its position in favor of the merger for which the three cities, already conurbed, will give life to a single city of just over one hundred thousand inhabitants, not a gigantic megalopolis, with a culturally homogeneous community, effectively certifying the daily life experience of all citizens of the three municipalities that already experience a single urban area, regardless of each person’s residence.
The assembly, however, expresses all its doubts regarding the path started by a botched Regional Law, accompanied by a feasibility study which photographs the present but which does not provide prospects for the future, which does not provide for direct regional incentives, which deprives the municipal councils with decision-making power but which, above all, does not contemplate any approach path; in order to arrive at the merger peacefully, it is necessary to draw up and approve an Associated Structural Plan (which also looks at the neighboring municipalities), which imagines a sustainable city, with Zero land consumption, with a Sustainable Mobility and Greenery Plan, which provides for effective connections from ‘Unical for the Historic Center and the hamlets south of the City of Cosenza, as well as for the Historic Centers of Rende and Castrolibero, with an organic plan on Common Goods (for which the club has started a study and proposal), a qualified and participatory analysis of the services to be merged, but which includes the essential involvement of citizens, bodies and associations present in the area.
