Lipari, official’s record lasts 7 days
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“The Aeolian spring heats up. With the resignation of the mayor of Lipari Riccardo Gullo, a new season opens. The disagreements within the majority have been decisive in Gullo’s decision, who is now aiming for the elections in June, where the new mayor and the municipal council will also be elected in the nearby municipality of Leni. Giacomo Montecristo announced that he will not run for office.
Gullo will run again
Gullo, on the other hand, intends to take the field again with a more cohesive team. In less than two years of administration, he found himself at odds with the president of the council Nuccio Russo and a few weeks ago, councilor Lucy Iacono resigned (but not as a councilor) stating that she “shares the work of the mayor, but not of some colleagues in the majority who seem more like opponents.”
The seven-day councilor
Certainly, the immediate appointment of councilor Carolina Barnao, already a delegate from Stromboli, was not a good sign to try to recover the resigning Iacono. Barnao will now go down in Aeolian political history as the councilor who lasted seven days. And news has leaked that Valerio Staffelli of “Striscia la Notizia” could come to deliver the “Tapiro” award. Among the dissenters is also Angelo Portelli, and the position of Gaetano Saltalamacchia elected on Gullo’s list “Rinascita Eoliana” and then moved to Forza Italia also needs to be clarified. The mayor’s coalition, although civic, represents the center-left. Gullo was a communist militant, a great friend of Massimo D’Alema who often vacationed in the Aeolian Islands with his sailing boat. In practice, the mayor no longer has a majority in the council and as he stated in the public assembly, “I will not let myself be slowly cooked, the people are with us and in June we will win the elections again.”
The group leaders meeting
In the meantime, the dissident council president has called a meeting of the group leaders for Monday at 10 am with three topics and one recommendation: 1. Motion for tanker tariff, requested to be signed by minority councilors 2. Establishment of a special commission for the green islands investment program, requested to be signed by the undersigned 3. Establishment of a special commission for the study and setting of the General Urban Plan (PUG), requested to be signed by the undersigned. The head of the first sector is asked for support unit to activate streaming and microphone system. In the municipal council, it will be an opportunity to count both in the majority and in the minority. In addition to the opposition of the five members of the minority led by Gaetano Orto, beaten by 11 votes, Gullo found himself facing continuous “attacks” via social media from the former council president Giacomo Biviano, who has since become an official in the Municipality of Santa Marina Salina where Gullo was born.”
Lipari, il record dell’assessore durato 7 giorni
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