And then we complain if citizens continue, massively, to desert the polls… The main blame lies with politics, which digs an ever wider and deeper chasm between its self-referentiality and the moods, needs, and aspirations of communities.
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It happens every day and is done thinking exclusively about internal balances and the need to divide up seats and positions, trampling on sensitivities and the sense of respect and dignity. What happened in Viareggio cries out for revenge.
The new mayor Sara Grilli has appointed as the new president of the Fondazione Carnevale the Campanian manager Riccardo Maria Monti. We do not know him and so we have to trust what the mayor said, according to whom he is “a personality of the highest profile, combining skills, international relations, and knowledge of territorial promotion processes.”
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Audio commentary – Politics without restraint
The right profile would be there, then. But the right curriculum is not. Because Viareggio, a city yes of Carnival but also and above all of the railway station massacre of June 29, 2009, where 32 people died whose bodies, mangled and burned by the burns, represent a manifesto of the damage that the dysfunctional Italy can cause, cannot passively accept Monti’s appointment. The latter, in the past, held the role of president of Italferr, a company that designs and coordinates the construction of new high-speed lines and the modernization of the railway network and is wholly owned by the Italian State Railways. That is the company whose former CEO Mauro Moretti recently faced prison after the final conviction for the crime of negligent railway disaster.
We are sorry for the excellent manager Monti, but at this point it should be him to show the restraint forgotten by politics and, as his first act as president of the Fondazione Carnevale, resign.
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