Naples – A single-issue city council meeting on Bagnoli will be convened shortly. The announcement was made by Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi, who reiterated the full environmental safety of the regeneration and remediation projects planned for the former Italsider site, both on land and at sea.
"We will now set the date," Manfredi explained, "but the work we are carrying out is absolutely safe: from an environmental standpoint, the investment guarantees maximum protection." The mayor appeared as a guest on the program Primativvu, part of the Centro Direzionale program, revisiting the "appropriateness" of the operations underway in the Phlegraean Fields.
Manfredi said he was convinced that, in the end, "the citizens will understand," rejecting the accusations that have rained down in recent days: "The criticisms leveled at me by those who have done nothing for thirty years are paradoxical and will be contradicted by the facts."
During the interview, the mayor also addressed political controversies. Regarding former Campania governor Vincenzo De Luca, Manfredi noted that he didn't understand "the reasons for the mayor of Salerno's resignation," but emphasized a difference in method: "I don't think politics should be about constant conflict, but about ongoing construction."
A more direct jab at former mayor Luigi de Magistris. "Four years ago," he recalled, "we inherited a dramatic situation: ABC without approved budgets for six years, ANM in receivership, Asia without resources and staff. We saved the city from default: today Naples is debt-free and we've hired 1.500 people."
Manfredi's comprehensive speech combines a defense of the Bagnoli project with a political and administrative assessment of his management and a clear message to critics: the answer, he assures, will come from the results.
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The article discusses Mayor Manfredi's handling of criticism over Bagnoli, but I'm not sure whether the project will actually be as safe as he claims. There are many doubts among residents about these projects.