"There are so many of you, and it's nice to be together today. We are here, first of all to say something clear, and I say it with a touch of emotion and a touch of pride: the Democratic Party is unitedly, from North to South, at your side to stop this wrong project of the Messina Bridge that Matteo Salvini is carrying out".
Thus the Dem leader
Elly Schlein
at a demonstration in the Torre Faro area in Messina where the
Strait Bridge
should be built .
"Minister Salvini is carrying forward this bridge project, regardless of the fact that it is an anachronistic, harmful, wrong project", said the leader of the Democratic Party.
"We saw it - he continued - even a few days ago in Parliament, when it clearly emerged that even the report which saw the contribution of a scientific committee clarified that the wind tests had not been carried out, that the adequate zoning with regards to seismic risks. We ask ourselves why all this haste which seems electoral, which does not have the true destiny of this community and this territory at heart".
"Schlein was with me on the plane. We joked. I told her 'I'm going to build, you're going to stop'. That's the beauty of democracy. I don't understand how anyone can say no to public works that will create dozens of thousands of jobs. I repeat, it is the beauty of democracy. Some say that we don't need to create infrastructures. For me, for the League and for the ministry I lead, infrastructures are needed in Sicily and throughout Italy. With Schlein we are there met and greeted and smiled. We have different ideas."
The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport,
Matteo Salvini
, said this in Belpasso (Catania) answering journalists' questions on the sidelines of the start of work on the Misterbianco-Paternò section of the Catania metro.
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"It is a shame that the left has chosen to put political controversy before the objective, which should be a priority for everyone, of the country's infrastructural development. Italy has been paralyzed for years by too many ideological 'no's' to strategic works, now let's turn the page. And it certainly won't be some catwalk of partisan politicians who will stop us: we will build the Messina Bridge".
Thus the governor of Sicily
Renato Schifani
.
"The Development and Cohesion Fund - he continues - is aimed at investments and what better investment than a work like the Bridge? But we would like to reassure everyone: this will certainly not distract the Region from strengthening the other Sicilian infrastructures, like other part we are doing."
"Even yesterday Salvini returned to claiming that not building the bridge over the Strait would be masochistic". A nonsense that goes hand in hand with that of the CEO of the company Ciucci, who 48 hours earlier told us clearly how possible improvements to the project , on such an impressive infrastructure, can also be done during construction, that is, while it is being built".
This was stated in a note by
M5s deputy group leader in the Chamber Agostino Santillo
.
"We - he adds - continue to believe it is more masochistic to spend 15 billion to gain half an hour compared to the dynamic crossing, also eliminating the development and cohesion funds for Sicily and Calabria. And above all we believe the ardor with which the Meloni government is proceeding, leaving announce to Salvini construction sites open already this summer, thus throwing into panic the thousands of people who will have to leave their homes".
"The updated project, as is known, brings with it 68 post-it notes with observations from the Scientific Committee. A serious government - he observes - would at least take the time to make the necessary assessments, with a view to achieving a real executive project equipped with all the necessary authorizations. Salvini's propaganda urge, however, is too strong, and the desire to take a selfie with the bulldozer in action even more so. There is nothing more masochistic for Italy than a infrastructure minister who carries on with his head down solely for reasons of consensus".
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