Confronti Association: “The election campaign is about Mps and Scotte”
In this last week of the electoral campaign there are issues of absolute importance for the future of Siena from which the political forces seem to turn away. Or touch with a light hand, when instead a very different approach would be needed. The Confronti association last Saturday met again in the presence, to talk, with many friends, about politics and these issues. Which are, above all, the Monte dei Paschi di Siena and the future of the Policlinico Le Scotte.
On the Bank we will never tire of saying that it is pure recklessness to imagine a demotion of the State from capital at market conditions when the market itself, today, cannot respond to its own rules. Simply, because these are skipped. Because of Covid, before, when we opposed the pro Unicredit stew. Because of the war, the exorbitant cost of energy, the shortage of raw materials, today. The eighteen months that Minister Franco seems to have agreed with Brussels for privatization are insufficient time, which absolutely cannot allow the reconstruction of normal market conditions. And the eventual sale of the Monte – or the amalgamation – will be a sale to the detriment of the assets that the institution represents for the credibility of the national banking system. As well as to the detriment of a truly competitive savings and credit system.
Instead, for the Polyclinic Le Scotte it is time to rebuild the company as a training and assistance center of excellence. Structural investments are not enough to re-establish its function: long-term strategies are needed, to be shared with the Region and the University, which share the supervision from the functions of a local hospital, rather than a polyclinic. Let’s face it, we must overcome a certain “subordination” to the health company, towards whose needs the Polyclinic has made itself too available. Because certain services must go back to being a service offered by the territory, rather than by the hospital of excellence. The resources of the PNRR must also be used for this.
With respect to these reflections, we therefore hope to see at least some reaction from the parties competing for the seats in Parliament. It would be a sign that the problems they represent are not, as we fear, off their political agenda.