“The Region has not spent the money sent by the government” –

Bad weather is lashing Emilia-Romagna and the new flood, in the area already hit a year ago, is becoming a political controversy when the regional elections are now imminent. Two people are missing in Bagnocavallo, in the province of Ravenna, where the banks of the Lamone river have burst. In the Traversara hamlet, evacuations are underway with firefighter helicopters of people stuck on the roofs. In this disaster, the left attacks the government guilty – attack several opposition figures – of not having secured the territory after the disastrous flood of May 2023. But is this really the case? Fratelli d’Italia rejects the accusations and announces complaints to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Court of Auditors.

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“What is happening in my Romagna is shameful. More landslides, floods, ruptures, inundations, displaced families. The Government has made 94 million euros available to the territorial security agency but only 49 have been spent, while for hydraulic security it has allocated 120 million of which not a single euro has been spent at the moment”, declares the senator of Fratelli d’Italia, Marta Farolfi, member of the Environment commission of Palazzo Madama. “The Province of Ravenna has been allocated 34.6 million of which only 1.5 have been spent. Evidently both the regional PD and De Pascale (the mayor of Ravenna, candidate for governor, ed.) have been too busy with the electoral campaign for the administrative elections first and the regional elections now, so much so that they have not had time to implement and implement the projects that would have made our territory safe and avoided new and significant damage. In my municipality, Brisighella, some hamlets are once again isolated as in May 2023. And this is because those who had promised to start work on the provincial roads at the beginning of the summer did not do so despite the resources being available. But this time Fratelli d’Italia will file complaints with every Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Court of Auditors to ascertain the responsibilities of the Region for what is happening. It is not possible that due to their inability, citizens and businesses are always the ones to pay the consequences”.

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Instead, the acting president of Emilia-Romagna, Irene Priolo, speaks of “scavenging” on the sidelines of a press briefing held at the headquarters of the Region in Bologna. The Minister for Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci, reiterates an unequivocal fact: “Structural and infrastructural prevention is the task of the Regions”, he said during the press briefing after the wave of bad weather. “In the last ten years” Emilia Romagna “has had 594,567,679 euros assigned by the governments of Rome, we are at over half a billion”, the minister recalled