"It is a great honor and a huge responsibility, an important challenge awaits us, to restart Turin, this is the mandate that has been given to us. Let's put ourselves at the service of Turin".
Thus the new mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, in his inauguration speech this morning in the Sala Rossa.
For Mayor Lo Russo, "there are three major priorities. First of all - he says - work and economic recovery, then social justice, inequalities and inclusion. We have the task of socially mending Turin and making all the Turinese feel truly protagonists. The third urgency is to make the international vocation of the city will be truly successful again and also be protagonists of the climate and environmental emergency by setting concrete, verifiable objectives and an example of how one can be a virtuous model of development ".
The mayor then declines a working method that will pass through "listening and confrontation, to bring the Turinese back to trusting the institutions and participate in democratic life. Listening to the citizens, to the Intermediate bodies to which to restore centrality, to the system of institutions, restoring centrality to the organs and institutions of the State and decentralized in a correct dynamic of relations that respects the roles and works with a view to collaboration. Then - he adds - to restart the concept of merit and competence, in policies, in people's choices, in action administrative. Third is innovation, in ideas, in habits, in people. We must be protagonists in change ".
Finally, Lo Russo mentions the tools with which to implement administrative action, "human resources, public and private economic resources, and the network of relations, recreating on a new basis a fabric capable of becoming a system again, starting with the NRP. We can't waste time, not even a second ".