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He had said it: democracy has a cost, the cheapest regimen is the dictatorship“That must be why the President of Liguria Giovanni toti He spared no (public) expense by making a sumptuous gift for his own evaluators: to know one deliberates, approved unanimously on November 13, which triples the loans granted to board members Ligurian to pay their own personal. Discovering -by chance- its existence was the leader of the DP group in the regional council Luca garibaldi. Some figures to clarify: if during Toti-one the team of advisers was able to spend 523 thousand euros rounds per year for the staff, in Toti-bis the treasury grows by 160%, increasing to 1,356,181.20 euros, 833 thousand more. Translated to jobs, each member of the board may hire in its political secretariat, with fiduciary appointment, two officials of the economic position D6 (gross salary 61,644.60 euros per year), instead of just one. While the vice president will have the right to four, of the two that were. So he armchairs to be covered at the expense of the budget go from 8 to 22, for a total disbursement that in a period of 5 years will reach almost 7 million euros.
To justify the move to fattening, the resolution explains that “the abilities of the regional administration have been further expanded in the legislature that has just ended, and therefore each member of the regional council has important issues of relevance with respect to the members of the regional councils of the previous legislatures, in particular derived from the transfer of functions of the provincial administrations ”. But that transfer, director Garibaldi points out a Ilfattoquotidiano.it, “It dates back to 2015, while in the last five years it has not been added without competition which justifies the multiplication of staff positions. “The provision also mentions” the competences attributed to the Region in the field of active employment policies exercised through i employment centers“Which however, Garibaldi points out,” are administered by regional offices, certainly not by political secretariats of the evaluators. “In summary, if one secretary for councilor was enough in the last legislature, it is not clear why now two are needed. Not to mention that Toti has chosen to maintain the more demanding delegations, that to Health and that to the budget.
And if it was easy to allocate hundreds of thousands of euros to these appointments, in other matters it seems that the threads of the pocket are still tight. “On Wednesday at the Environment Committee we discussed the resources that will be allocated to stream and river cleaning“Reports dem parent company.” Obviously we have been told that there is no money, that resources are scarce and 300 thousand euros more is a great achievement. Then you read the resolutions and discover that, when you want, resources are found. A greater sobriety of the institutions would be needed, especially at a time like this: and before the resources for personnel, communication, television, should come the prevention of the territory. “It’s like the three-card game: the money is there, the money is not,” he attacks. The weather in Ferruccio Sansa, director of the homonymous list and former candidate for governor. “They are never there when they are needed to carry out important works such as natural parks, stream cleaning and river safety. No need to buy tampons, masks and pay health personnel. But they are always found when it suits those who govern, in complete silence by the majority and at the cost of truly “political” options, that is, in favor of the citizens. A radiotherapy machine – those that were missing from the San Martino hospital and that forced cancer patients to emigrate by bus to Savona – costs exactly the same as the Toti’s team”.
Accusations responded to, on Facebook, by a press release from council group reporting to the governor. “Is about different expense items, the expenses of the board support staff do not take away financing to other items ”, specifies the Cambiamo list. They are then professionals who support the councilors and the president, not friends of friends, elected by mere political co-option as Sansa probably would like and as a distinctive feature of the parties that support him, but capable people ”. However, the leader of the M5S group also arrives to press the same button Fabio Tosi: “When needed, the funds are never there. And of course, when they are not, it is always government fault. However, when they combine to grease the Totiana machine and the allies’ appetites, all is well. After having increased the costs with the operation of the resigned councilors, now the president also increases the staff with dizzying and shameful spending ”. The reference is to the diktat with which Toti imposed a five advisers resign as regional councilors, to take over as many unelected candidates, at a cost of approximately half a million euros more per year for the public purse. But, on the other hand, we know that democracy costs money.
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