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me five Chiara Appendino Mayor’s years have been disappointing, paradoxical, but also instructive. Disappointment is the sentiment that reigns as a result of the collapse of the expectations that the Turinese had poured out on the 5S candidate. A fresh, young and promising political exponent like Appendino was chosen as a reaction to the clumsiness of a local power system deaf to the recognition of any instance beyond its unaltered reproduction, erroneously considered perpetual. On the other hand, to take stock of this five-year period, all that remains is to resign oneself to a fact that in 2016 seemed unlikely even for the most tedious Cassan.dra: the mayor managed to upset everyone and everyone.
Starting with his own electorate and the political majority as well as the most pointed detractors.
However, Appendino dispersed two goods more rare and precious than mere and volatile electoral consent. I am referring, first of all, to the generalized confidence in the change that starts from below; and secondly, to the civic sense of hundreds of volunteers who in 2016 (and less and less in the following years) invested energy, time and money. From a sociological point of view, in fact, and purified of subjective judgments, the activism of the 5S represented a good sign of vitality of the public sphere, not only local, capable of cultivating and re-fertilizing a land that has emerged dramatically withered for decades of Berlusconi. and administration of the collusion center.
Instead, I define the mayor’s experience as paradoxical in relation to the values of the party he comes from. Since the first months of government, he has been prey to the tension between a struggle (often broken) against expert knowledge and the need to maintain fruitful collaborative relationships with the actors that these skills embody at the local level, at least not to interrupt financing the coffers. peoples. It happened with the Compagnia di San Paolo, then with Trm, the company in charge of managing the Gerbido waste burner.
A battle, the one for the closure of this type of plants, which has blatantly failed where the 5S administrators have tried to fight it and which – and here is the paradox – Appendino has managed to contravene the expectations of its political side: to put in the booth an exponent of the pro-inc world with a respectable pedigree.
There was no greater coherence on the front of the policies of cultural and tourist attraction, where the mayor, with the help of the ruling class she elected, first did everything possible to dismiss the big events, starting with the so-called exhibitions. “Blockbuster” then proved incapable of playing the Olympic game strategically, therefore, through the mouth of his deputy, he escaped from the Auto Show, but only after making it tasty enough to tempt Milan. , which accepted a partial compensation caused by the frustrated theft of the Book Fair. Subject – we must give credit – that represents the only real occasion in which the mayor (not only) has been able to endure, interconnect and fully protect the interests of the city. Finally, a paradox within a paradox, after asking the Turinese for a leap of faith on the axiom that big events are incompatible with the redevelopment of the suburbs, the mandate of these five years ends with the ATP tennis finals.
Finally, the damage that the city has suffered due to negligence or poor management capacity is not yet fully decipherable, first in questionable elections, then in the abused choice of postponing options (as in the cases of the Museo del Cine y Teatro Regio ) or reproduce (another paradox) the logic of the “old politics” in the selection of the new elite of the city.
Also for these reasons, the Turinese approach the next electoral round with the soul of those who are aware of having to rebuild the city from its foundations. The lesson is that thinking about doing it by replicating the current administration’s apparatus of proposals and methods will bring more persistent side effects than the supposed benefits.
