the councilor resigns –

Less than 24 hours. This was the duration of the appointment of the Councilor for the Environment of Bari, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, chosen by the new mayor Vito Leccese. After the controversy that broke out on social media over the statements of the environmentalist from «Europa Verde» (with which she ran in the municipal elections last May, obtaining 34 preferences). “I am in contact with Nonnis Marzano, who, aware of the controversy that is being raised and of the possible negative repercussions to the detriment of the serenity she needs to work well, has communicated to me in these hours that she wants to renounce the role I conferred on her, also to preserve her freedom of thought and speech, and to protect her professional reputation, which has always been recognized in every forum. Reputation and commitment to environmental battles that had convinced me to choose her to face the decisive environmental challenges that our city faces”, wrote Leccese in a note.

The reason? On May 16, Nonnis Marzano wrote that the government “is trying to bring death everywhere, never mind pro-life.” “Don’t you think the time has come to dismiss this annoying old man from the daily news and take him to the park to feed the sparrows? Oh, better not, given the tradition, I wouldn’t want him to turn his attention to children instead,” he typed on social media on May 31, speaking about Pope Francis. A chilling post, this one, which rightly attracted the attention of many and raised a real storm. But that’s not all. The councilor had previously also defined the G7 participants as “useless parasites,” adding that “they are right to protect them, because otherwise fewer would return home than those who arrived.”

“It is incredible what happened in Bari, where the mayor Vito Leccese, after two troubled months, formed the new council, appointing a lady named Carlotta Nonnis Marzano as environmental councilor. In the previous months, this person has been the protagonist of numerous public outings in which, in order, she incited violence, insulted Pope Francis and some political opponents, including, obviously, Matteo Salvini in first place. Should we think that, as a reward for all this, the mayor of the PD has rewarded her with a councilor’s seat? Is this the new line of Elly Schlein’s PD in Bari? Is this the caliber of the wide field, given that Nonnis Marzano is from the party of Fratoianni and Bonelli? One would regret Decaro, if not for the fact that not even he, director of the Leccese mayor operation, prevented this from happening”: this is what the Apulian deputy of the Lega Rossano Sasso said in a note.