GENOVA (ITALPRESS) – “I wish that I, the junta and our majority had the courage to leave in inheritance to Genoa the problems solved”. It is the hope of Silvia Salis, former athlete and vice president of the Coni, from May mayor of the Ligurian capital after winning the elections leading the wide progressive field. A victory that immediately projected it on the national scenario as a possible leader of the centre-left or even candidate premier in 2027 against Giorgia Meloni. “If anyone calls me for primary? I will reply absent, not only because I make the mayor of Genoa, but also because I believe that the primaries should be abolished, in the center-left coalition as within the parties – Salis all’Italpress explains. It is a tool that could make sense when I was celebrating a decision already made within the party’s leadership, but for what concerns me I would like the parties or coalitions to express their leaders without having to fight each other. If you make primaries it is also a race, albeit internal. As little as they can last, a person should speak badly of those who the next day must become their allies. What’s the point? Doors closed, however, even in case of direct call: “I make the mayor of Genoa until 2030”. And then? “Now ask me too much”, short cut.
Among the most thorny dossiers to deal with in 2026 is the closure of the waste cycle. The notice for companies published by the Region at the end of the year, fixing the minimum capacity to 220 thousand tons, opens to the realization of a thermo-valorizer in Scarpino, historical discharging to the service of Genoa, but in its coalition are many to express opposition, starting from Avs and M5s. “The mayors, unlike the parties, must solve the problems – warns Salis -. We need the practical problem. To a party, if the city is filled with waste, what happens? Clearly there may be a disaffection of part of the electorate or a bad reputation, but a mayor cannot afford that the city is filled with waste.” The junta has indicated to Amiu to commission a study to analyze four different scenarios (with or without thermo-valorizer and intermediate plants) in relation to the trend of the Tari. “Once we have had the results of that study we will make a decision, certainly political but also technical”, explains the mayor. Another problem to face, the crisis of public transport and the Amt company, in negotiated composition of the crisis.
The Court of Genoa has given the green light to the protective measures on Christmas Eve. But the problem, he observes Salis, is also national: “From the financial data it is evident that there is a structural problem, there are 700 million to guarantee the existing services, therefore essential services. I ask the government to understand that public transport is an essential service on which you cannot save money, as well as you cannot save on health or school building, two other issues that in the financial sector find very little space.”.
Speaking of state resources, a theme that is at heart in Salis is that of security:” 80% of the great cities of Italy are guided by the centrinistra, so it is very convenient to say that Milan, Genoa, Turin, Rome or Naples are insecure, when then security is a responsibility of the government and the state police in financial institution had zero resources. We have a state police that is 11,000 units under the provision that should have by law. In addition In 13 years the local police of all Italy have decreased by 12 thousand units.” So far, however, the budget of 2025 satisfies Salis “though with great problems on the table. When you become mayor, in the first months you are overwhelmed by a series of events and you have to put everything in line, but I have to say they have been very positive months”, he concludes.
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