In Livorno a storm over Mayor Salvetti: vote on the land of the former employers

It’s hot in Livorno but this time climate change has nothing to do with it. To inflame spirits, complete with transversal and internal political controversies, and commissions that invade city ​​council banners and protests and persistent rumors of alleged conflicts of interest, It is the alternative to the construction plan (approved yesterday) defined by the right and left oppositions as the “city sack” and above all the decision to build a multifunctional sports hall (called Cobone) in a green area of ​​the suburban neighborhood. the
Residents demanded that it be built on partially built-up land where a number of villas will be built, but the municipality headed by the mayor said no.. And so far there is nothing unusual.

The problem is The residents of the neighborhood discovered that the alternative land they proposed to build a gymnasium, the one next to the villas to be built, belonged to the Frimoras family, One of the three most important families in the city, she also owns a television station (Grand Ducal Television) with headquarters in Livorno and the Tuscan catchment area, where, before leaving, the mayor of the city, Luca Salvetti, a freelance journalist, was employed.

The first controversies reached the city council, with a dramatic face-to-face confrontation between one of the committee leaders and the mayor himself, protests from the opposition, demonstrations and malicious, but unproven, conflict-of-interest hypotheses.

As a result of the city’s provocation a political upheaval transversal from the opposition left (Buongiorno Livorno, Potere al Popolo and Cinque Stelle), while on the right even the repudiation of The leader of the Fratelli d’Italia group, Police Inspector Andrea Romiti, who asked the mayor to refrain from working as an employee on Fremura leaveBut the party itself denied it. Even who, with his local leaders, decided to contact Salvetti to warn him of their disagreement with his party colleague. And so Romiti, a candidate for mayor specifically against Salvetti, had to leave the FdI and join the mixed group. It is not ruled out to enter the league.

“I didn’t accuse anyone of a conflict of interest – explains Romiti – I just said that, as an employee of Fremura, the mayor should have never dealt with this issue, which he instead took very good care of. As an inspector of police in Livorno, I went to work in Beza, so as not to contradict a general principle, which is the principle of the possible neutrality of the administration.” The pressure of the left opposition that you are talking about “A matter of chance as big as a house”. Then Costanza Vaccaro (mixed group) explained that the Salvete junta had three years to rework the urban plan for the area but did not do so, causing time to run out. The Democratic Party defends the mayor talking about the “mud machine”.

Luca Salvetti speaks instead of absurd accusations and gloomy allusions He explains that not only had he never favored his employer prior to his election as mayor, but on two occasions actions were taken that were not in his favour. In short, there is no mess. However, there are those who remember, with rancor, how Granducato Tv, the television of the Fremura family, gave politics to different personalities: the current mayor Luca Salvetti, the regional councilor Francesco Gazzetti, the former city councilor and the president of the city council Fizio Benetti. Salvetti is fired as mayor, a highly successful operation after the M5S surprisingly invades the city, interrupting the 69-year dominance of the former PCI, then-rep. Andrea Romano. Also associated with Granducato TV.

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