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21 January 2020Clamorous knockout in the Capitoline Assembly for the Giunta Raggi, put by its own majority at the time of the vote of two 'twin' motions of Fdi and Pd, approved with the votes of the M5S - the first with 28 in favor, 3 against and 3 abstained, the second with 21 in favor, 1 against and 10 abstentions - which commit the mayor and his councilors to withdraw the resolution of the Board that establishes the construction of a waste disposal plant in the Monte Carnevale area, to evaluate a different location of the new landfill.

The favorable vote of the two measures came at the end of a day that began with the garrison in the Piazza del Campidoglio of the citizens of the Galeria Valley, which for decades hosted the maxi-landfill of Malagrotta, who then went up to the Julius Caesar room to attend the work board members, welcoming the vote of the Assembly with applause and cheers.

The reasons of the dissidents
Simona Ficcardi, the "rebel leader" on the waste issue, explained the reasons for the M5S councilors who voted against the administration line: "We are against landfills in general, but today we must take note of an emergency situation and the need to identify a landfill that would be unjust both in Rome and in the province ". According to Ficcardi "it is necessary to reopen the technical table that identified the 11 sites, mostly inside quarries, because the preliminary investigation was lacking from the beginning, since the identification of the sites; furthermore the act voted in 2019 in this Aula, the resolution for the protection of the Galeria Valley, provided for a variant to protect it but was unfairly anticipated by the Council resolution that identifies the area of ​​Monte Carnevale. I vote in favor of the proposals of the two political groups because after the Malagrotta landfill the territory must be restored, it was a mistake to put Valle Galeria among the 11 sites: after which it was the Capitol that chose Monte Carnevale, and it is a political defeat for the M5S that has always fought for Valle Galeria. The request to withdraw the resolution Giunta - the councilor M5s concluded - is perfectly consistent with what we have always said in this House and with the program that, like M5S, has seen us win the elections ".