BOLZANO. To general surprise, the Greens presented their “co-leader” at the provincial elections on 22 October. It will be Sabine Giunta, head of the Bolzano 1 school and former provincial secretary of the Flc CGIL, who will support Brigitte Foppa in the electoral race and take over from Riccardo Dello Sbarba.
Greens run
Sabine Giunta will be the middle name. At the head of the list (the first six names will be voted on next week, the rest in June) will appear the Ladin Elide Mussner, already a candidate for the Chamber in the past elections, and the outgoing Hanspeter Staffler should be in the team. Giulio Angelucci, director of the Province’s waste management office, might appear on the list, but he has not yet dissolved his reservations.
Beyond the statements
“We are ready to govern,” says Brigitte Foppa. Therefore, at least one elected person will be needed who has declared herself belonging to the Italian group. Like Sabine Giunta, born and raised in Germany by Sicilian immigrant workers. “In our family, studying has been a way to redemption,” recalls the head teacher, who therefore wanted to make her work a tool “to build conditions that are different from the starting conditions of many.” Her heart aches to hear of mandatory tests or courses. And she recalls that the role of the school is different, “it is to give more to those who have less”. You point out that at «Bolzano 1» 47 per cent of the pupils have roots in other countries. He wants to bring to the Province the themes of a school that from 2008 to today is increasingly school-company, caught between the constant search for funds, «state laws and provincial regulations that contradict each other, services to be coordinated according to an increased complexity of society, and inadequate pay for teachers’. She doesn’t like the facilitated school for those with fewer possibilities, nor the short school of the culture of production. She dryly: «The “Made in Italy high school”? He would be fined only for the definition ».
«Italians» declared
Brigitte Foppa and Dello Sbarba frown when it comes to linguistic groups. “The declaration is needed – they explain – because politics still make it work like this”. «But without this “wrong party” of ours, South Tyrol would be poorer», notes Dello Sbarba, who chose not to stand as a candidate following four legislatures, «A political act, because for me to pass the baton, as I belong to that generation of ” which has held on tightly by asphyxiating two or three successive generations, is still a building movement. It’s not that I disappear. This is the first step of another path». Dello Sbarba is moved. Five minutes later: «We will certainly have some “Italians” on the list. In these twenty years I haven’t twirled my thumbs».
