Fabio Pacciani: “All together let’s break this transversalism that suffocates the city”
“Four months after the end of the mandate, the ‘appointment’ by the mayor and the majority continues unabated and without hesitation. Appointments that will largely lapse with the conclusion of the mandate but always made without any sharing with the community, as is now tradition”. With these words Fabio Pacciani, candidate for mayor of the Polo Civico Siena, comments on the situation of chaos in some city institutions.
For Siena, appointments made by ‘Cencelli manual’. “The administration led by De Mossi – comments the candidate for mayor of the Polo Civico Siena – and from the centre-right has accustomed us, like some of their predecessors, to appointments according to the ‘Cencelli manual’, largely putting before friendships, interests and party with respect to merit and competence. The consequence of all this? The maintenance of that transversalism that has blocked the city for years and that has united and distinguished first the center-left and today the center-right “.
The latest transversalisms between centre-left and centre-right power groups. “Let’s make a brief summary – continues Pacciani – of what has happened to date. In 2018 Massimo Castagnini, who during the years of ‘extra power of the center-left’ always had leading roles in MPS, was appointed president of Siena Parcheggi (today Sigerico) of which, despite his candidacy, he has not yet resigned. In 2021 there was the appointment of Lucia Cresti, former councilor of Franco Ceccuzzi with Anna Ferretti to the presidency of the Santa Maria della Scala Foundation: also in this case no discontinuity, but old and new transversalisms. Then, in November 2022, the appointments of Siena Jazz arrived with some well-known faces of the Siena right: Francesco Giusti and Lorenzo Rosso, first close to De Mossi and today engaged respectively alongside the fake civic candidate Massimo Castagnini and the candidate of the current centre-right majority Emanuele Montomoli. Then there are the institutional messes, produced by Mayor De Mossi’s muscular method, never questioned by the center-right chaos, which have led to attrition inside and outside the most important city institutions: from the Siena Jazz statute with all that passing through the Rinaldo Franci Conservatory, which risked not being nationalized due to a spite from the mayor, up to the recent events of the Municipal Library and the inevitable trail of poisons, suspicions and divisions left as a dowry to those who will come. Finally, there is the long affair of the ASP Città di Siena, which began first with the change of the Statute, then culminated with the resignation of Bianca Maria Rossi, continued with the appointment of the general manager Ulderico Izzo who seems close to resigning. Here too there has been yet another tug of war between the Municipality and ASP, the main municipal institution that deals with social and welfare services”.
The administration’s propaganda of ‘doing’. “The ‘nominificio’ – observes Pacciani – has been joined in recent months by the mayor and the majority’s desperate attempt to portray themselves as ‘the administration of doing’ with announcements of works that probably will never be built. Today, a few months before the elections, for the first time in five years the junta is going to the neighborhoods, while Siena is scattered with small building sites. The question is: instead of waiting five years, couldn’t we have intervened sooner? It looks more like propaganda than administrative action.”
All together let’s break the transversalism that suffocates the city. “There is a lot to ‘break’ and a lot to rebuild – concludes Fabio Pacciani, candidate for mayor – First of all there is to break this transversalism that has suffocated the city for years without a vision, a perspective and an idea of the Siena of Siena tomorrow. We need to break a system of power that doesn’t put skills and merit first. But above all there is much to rebuild: the sense of being a community; people’s trust in good politics; the centrality of citizens; the role of the Municipality at the service of the Sienese; relations between institutions; the sharing of strategic policies with the Municipalities that spread us. If I am mayor, my goal will be to make the Sienese feel, as Giorgio La Pira said, ‘members of the same family’: our Siena”.