Arzano, “Fascist and Fundamentalist” Press: Mayor Vincenza Aruta Ends Up in a Storm

arzano. “Fascist and fundamentalist” press: Mayor Vincenza Aruta ends up in a storm. Intervention requested by Prefect Claudio Palomba, the National Federation and the journalists' union. Harsh, very harsh words written down in black and white by the mayor of arzano Vincenza Aruta and transcribed in the council meeting of last September 5th where the opposition had abandoned the room in protest.

The mayor, using vehement words, reiterated that: "I do not intend to collude with this fascist press, all of it. It is a fascist press, it is a fundamentalist press that stirs up people's spirits. What should we do? Should we work or should we respond to the press? When I speak of the system, everyone imagines the underworld. No, it is not that. No one will dictate the agenda of this administration.

I won't tolerate it, no one will dictate it."

It might interest you

Read more onNaples Politics

←→

Manfredi: "Naples is now a global city."

20-10-2025, 14:43:16

Manfredi: "We're working to reopen the Maradona mural; we need a shared solution."

20-10-2025, 11:47:19

Manfredi: "I'm running again for mayor of Naples. I don't want to leave the job half done."

16-10-2025, 16:20:26

Naples, attendance fees at municipal councils, Strazzullo: "Let's clarify matters, but without easy pillories."

24-09-2025, 19:04:48

The accusations and invectives didn't stop, as he continued to harass the press, guilty of failing to publicize the few initiatives implemented in nearly a year of administration. "We're all against us. You should know that. Hard times lie ahead. We're against the press that calls itself anti-Camorra, we're against the traditional local press, we're against the opposition. And do you know why we're against them? Because they don't want to face reality.

It’s like a parent who has a drug addicted child and doesn’t want to understand that the child is a drug addict and is sick”. The mayor, according to some local journalists, systematically refuses any discussion on any issue related to the city, breaking the rules of institutional language and trying to impose a press blackout on her administrators as well. How dramatic it is for an entire city that a mayor doesn’t realize that managing “public affairs” implies having to answer to everyone for one’s actions.

Not just to whoever you want. The association Attivisti per Arzano has sided with the local press. “After the opposition left the room, the mayor Cinzia Aruta used harsh and seriously offensive words towards the local press, which she repeatedly called fascist. She didn’t forget even one critical passage on the anti-Camorra. She was unable to give answers in her long speech, she stopped at the questions, one in particular: but where do you live?”.

Carmine Longhi