FLORENCE (ITALPRESS) – “In Upper Mugello there is a situation of clear distress and suffering, and again yesterday I visited the municipalities of Firenzuola, Palazzuolo sul Senio and Marradi. We are intervening to support them, checking the situation of local landslides and the need for recovery. I want to send a clear message right away: we will not allow regional road 302, which is the key axis connecting with Marradi, to remain closed until September. I say this with respect to rumors that have been created. We absolutely will not allow it.”
Thus the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, on the sidelines of a meeting in Sesto Fiorentino. “I have already mobilized my executives,” he continued, “and tomorrow morning I will make a new inspection with them to verify landslide by landslide how we can intervene urgently: my goal is to make the road passable, perhaps with alternating one-way passages, within 10 days.
“You cannot have a municipality like Marradi separate from Tuscany, and so the Region intervenes in person to guarantee the citizens of Marradi this. I hope,” Giani said again, “that the Railways will do the same, because it is absolutely unthinkable to slow down the work on the Faentina, which must restart because public rail transport in this area has an absolutely strategic value. On Wednesday in the meeting I organized with all the mayors of Mugello, we will talk about the special plan for Mugello. A plan with respect to which the Region will play a leading role, verifying how to put together the necessary resources to identify specific interventions that anticipate the PAC, the Climate Change Adaptation Plan, for the Mugello and Alto Mugello area.”
Giani also returned to the request made in recent days to declare a national emergency for the areas affected by the bad weather. “The head of the national department Ciciliano, in the March 16 meeting, proposed that we wait for the developments of the next expected disturbance, although for me the state of emergency could be activated immediately and, in this respect, I had moved by declaring a regional state of emergency. In any case, I listened, in a spirit of institutional collaboration, to Ciciliano’s considerations, but it is clear that as of today, given that what could have presented itself as a further bad weather emergency has ceased, I will defer to urging intervention of a national nature, because it is so obvious that the damage we have suffered requires the recognition of a national state of emergency in view of the fact that Mugello, in two and a half years, has suffered the effects of five major disasters. We get our hands on it,” he concluded, “but it is necessary to have recognition from the government such as a national state of emergency. It has been recognized to other realities with less severe damage.”
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(ITALPRESS)
