The group leader of the Fratelli d’Italia Libero Gioveni, also following the unclear declarations that the leader of the South calling North made yesterday on the future decisions that the majority of Mayor Basile will take on student residences, believes that a political intervention by the mayor on acts which, from whatever perspective you look at them, will in any case have a significant impact on the life and general interests of the Messina people is more than necessary.
I believe it is quite simplistic – Gioveni highlights – that the mayor of a city called upon to massively increase its urban planning load in three distinct areas and host 1800 students limits himself only to issuing a few timid statements to the press and instead does not report his official position to the City Council, the only body responsible for deciding.
In light of the many doubts that emerged from various quarters during the Council meeting last November 5 (including those expressed by our group in a very clear and direct manner, regardless of what anyone says) – continues the councilor – it is clear that knowing a transparent (and certainly not “Pilatesque”) position of the mayor could represent for many of us an almost decisive element in the overall evaluation of the public interest apparently represented in the three resolutions.
In short – asks the FdI exponent – is mayor Basile for or against the construction of three or part of the student residences? And if so, do you consider yourself ready to manage the inevitable impacts or waste effects that these buildings will cause on the territory and on the social fabric? Or is yours, as seems to have happened on several occasions with the bridge issue, simply an “NI”?
And again: why has no action been taken, also for reasons of expediency, to request opinions from the Circumscriptions on which the three student residences would fall due to their specific knowledge of the territories?
In short – concludes Gioveni – on such important and determined choices that the City Council will soon have to make, net of the involvement of the Municipalities, it is certainly desirable at least to have the mayor in the Chamber, whose certainly authoritative opinion evidently correlated to his precise guarantees for the protection of the territory, could, why not, also direct the City Council even towards a unanimous vote precisely because the interests of the city cannot have a political colour.