Napoli. Connecting the Pietrarsa museum with the San Giovanni a Teduccio seafront for a route by sea with Sorrento, Capri and the Amalfi coast. This is one of the dreams and objectives of the criminal lawyer Immaculate Roman, born in 1989, candidate with the Democratic Centre for Gaetano Manfredi mayor.
With her boyfriend Giuseppe Milazzo she shares the criminal law office in the Naples East neighborhood, a stronghold for rights and for those who live in the urban outskirts of the city. Despite her 32 years, she already comes from an administrative experience in Cercola, her hometown, where she resigned to take to the field and lend a hand to what she calls “reconstruction of the city”.
"I decided to run for the City Council of Naples, for the administrative elections of October 3 and 4 - says candidate Romano - because I have always experienced politics as a feeling of love towards one's community. I was born and raised in Cercola, a handkerchief of land between the eastern area of Naples and the mouth of Vesuvius.
As a criminal lawyer, I can say that in the suburbs we find that part of the social fabric relegated to a subordinate role and that, inevitably, in times of social and economic crisis translates into a prison population. Therefore, I aspire to be part of a new municipal administration that unitedly picks up the pieces of a destroyed, disoriented, hungry city”.
There are many proposals to bring to the city council and to the attention of the city government.
“Creation of sports services, entirely paid for by the Municipality, for economically disadvantaged youth, to whom disused structures to be redeveloped or some hours in municipal structures entrusted to management should be allocated. Also evaluate the activation of a municipal fund through which to pay for sports activities at existing municipal structures.
Activation of free after-school municipal services in dedicated spaces within municipal libraries, with particular attention to disabled children”: these are some of the points that closely touch the social context of the city's peripheral neighborhoods. Sports, cultural activities and meeting spaces are the areas from which to provide new references in certain neighborhoods.
First of all, however, there is the great environmental and health issue of East Naples: “In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in cancer deaths in the neighborhoods of Barra, Ponticelli and San Giovanni a Teduccio. For the residents of these neighborhoods, in most cases, finding out that cancer has struck them or a loved one is an intolerably common experience.
The industrial triangle of Naples must be given back a livability worthy of those who live there. Census and remediation of asbestos in all buildings, constant monitoring of the environmental impact of all industrial activities present are not wishful thinking but moral and political priorities”.
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