Elections | Verona | Agsm-Objective | Tosi
«In Agsm-Aim, Verona has more citation but Vicenza commands. It is a paradox ». But the company replied: “There are not two companies, but a single large group that does not look at the places of residence.”
Question and answer between the candidate for mayor Flavio Tosi and the president of Agsm-Aim Stefano Casali. The two, long ago, were allies. A time that now seems distant even if less than ten years have passed. But the times of politics run at a different speed than the time held by clocks and calendars. And so Verona Domani, the Casali movement, is today one of the pivots on which the re-nomination of the mayor Federico Sboarina rests. While Tosi wants to close the Sboarina parenthesis and cover the one already held for two terms.
And the political narrative of Flavio Tosi has a main theme that often recurs: Sboarina has ruined the work set up by the two previous administrations, those led by Tosi. A narrative that also affects the investee companies that have experienced a great revolution during Sboarina’s five-year period. Agsm, the largest company controlled by the Municipality of Verona, merged with the objective, the main company controlled by the Municipality of Vicenza. The two companies, however, were not of the same size and for this reason the shares are not divided equally. Verona has more than 60% of Agsm-Aim and expresses the president (Stefano Casali) and the director (Stefano Quaglino). “Yet the power is effective in the hands of Vicenza”, Tosi who adds: “As mayor I created the conditions for the merger, but the administration did not manage as it should have complained about the powers. Based on the quotas, Verona would have the right to manage four of the six business units, the decision-making heart of the group, which instead are shared equally. The most serious fact, however, is that within them the power of Verona has been weakened, which has fired five executives with great experience and profound knowledge of the operating machine for political reasons. Vicenza instead held the best figures. In this way, a strong imbalance has been created in Agsm-Aim in favor of Vicenza, which today has key men in the sectors where the effective decisions of the group are made. The administration of Verona has preferred to take care of itself, highly paid but essentially only representative seats. We need a change of course to give Verona the weight that the history of Ag just and the many employees who work there deserve. And us after the elections, he also brings the president back to a “normal” level in this sense, since with boarina it has been tripled ».
An intervention, that of Tosi, described as “electoral” by Casali. The president of Agsm-Aim said he was amazed by the words of the candidate for mayor and added: “We expected that Tosi had understood that today there are no two companies but only one and that all the employees of the previous ones are part of a single large group who is achieving unthinkable goals and results under his mandate as mayor. As for individual enhancements of internal subjects, we like to be able to communicate to him and to the territories that the same are done only with regard to the specific skills and abilities to be applied in the best possible way in each single company sector. We do not look at the places of residence or the various presumed “belonging” of employees to delegate responsibilities and work commitments ».
Casali, on the other hand, did not address the issue of his emolument, but on this he was defended by the municipal councilors of Verona Tomorrow Paolo Rossi and Massimo Paci: «Tosi talks about emoluments, well-paid seats, positions, caregas in public companies? Maybe he’s joking, or his memory is very short. A few years ago, Verona came to the attention of all the national media for the scandal of the golden salaries received by numerous general managers of the subsidiaries during his mandate. A fool who made our bad city an example of administration, just while he was mayor. Fortunately, those times have passed and the pharaonic figures perceived by his managers are a distant memory. Golden salaries, very high costs, directors with salaries higher than the President of the Republic, bonuses and prizes of thousands of thousands of euros a year to former CEOs and presidents, very often non-graduates, of Amia, Ac Veronesi, Amt, Solori, Agsm, all personally chosen by the former mayor. A real shame, in the face of the community and the weakest. Tosi at least the decency not to dig up that sad page of Verona. The case of a couple of managers of public companies who receive 250 thousand euros a year caused a sensation, without forgetting the pharaonic salaries of the super former general manager of Agsm, Giampiero Cigolini, who has always been Tosi’s shoulder in the matter of investee companies. Just that Cigolini who today campaigns alongside the former mayor, enjoying a super golden pension paid for years as citizens of Verona ».