Naples, de Magistris: 'We will avert bankruptcy'. 'The government should get the Municipalities out of trouble'. 'The Municipality's accounts, also due to the responsibility of the Governments that have succeeded one another in recent years, have brought the Municipalities to the brink of bankruptcy.
MDespite this, we have averted the bankruptcy of the Municipality of Naples and I am convinced that until the end of our experience we will avoid it, but I am sorry that we do not have governments and parliamentary majorities of the caliber that with facts, not with words, can get the Municipalities out of the difficulty, from the continuous resuscitation and from the financial intensive care. They could do it but they do not do it for political choice because they want to put the mayors and the cities in difficulty with a policy that is not in the interest of the citizens". The mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, said this on Radio Crc and added: "Now there are rules and decrees under discussion. We will see if they will abandon the rhetoric of wanting to help local authorities by approving financial accounting rules that do not cost a euro or if they prefer to fight politically because perhaps the mayor of Naples is involved". According to de Magistris, "we must prevent that in such a serious period for our country, municipalities like Messina, Reggio Calabria, Naples or Turin go bankrupt.
This is what mayors and citizens ask for, not unspeakable political fights that are the order of the day. While we discuss the problems of the cities - he continued - there are politicians and politicians who meet in more or less visible circles in which they plot to defeat administrative and political experiences in an absolutely opaque manner, they work to make Municipalities fail, they do not pass laws that have the favorable opinions of the ministries and of the Anci and they try to bring realities of the South to their knees and perhaps they are politicians from the South who fill their mouths with nothing mixed with nothing".
Article published on 2 July 2020 - 15:25
