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30 March 2020No to a "new constituent", as the mayor of Milan Beppe Sala asked, "but remain our constitution, fully implemented". This is how the mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, spoke on RaiNews24. "I am to implement the constitution in the direction of common goods - underlines the former PM -, if it had happened before we would not have seen our public health dismantled". The first citizen also calls for greater autonomy for the mayors and more attention of the government to local authorities. "Up to now - he observes - we mayors have been abandoned. The first signal came on Saturday from Giuseppe Conte. It is a drop, but important. Without the mayors the country does not hold, the services and democratic holding of the country in front collapse to an epidemic that is no longer just health but social and economic ".

In Naples a solidarity fund
"Nothing is enough, but I give a positive opinion to the funds of the Government. We, thanks to the municipal solidarity fund 'heart of Naples', made up of city resources only, aim to have a 10 million piggy bank to get to the homes of deprived Neapolitans of income. " So the mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, live on Rainews24. So to the 7 million 300 thousand euros that the government has allocated for the Neapolitan city, the municipal administration will add its own resources. "But it should not be forgotten that in Naples there are not only the cassaintegrati or the VAT numbers, - continues de Magistris - here there is also an economy of the everyday, of getting by, an economy of the undeclared who must have the right to put the dish on the table ". "At the moment the network formed by administration, private social, secular and religious solidarity networks is holding. There are no riots, there are signs that we are attentive, but there is still no public policy issue." Finally, the former magistrate hopes that the funds allocated by the government will arrive "no later than this week".

Reggio Calabria, the emergency makes no distinctions
"The fund that the government has reserved for the Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria will be over 4.5 million euros for the needs of people who, in this period of particular emergency, experience a situation of economic difficulty. 30% of the total amount reserved for our region ". This is what the mayor of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Falcomatà says. "Of these, approximately 1.4 million will go to the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, which will allow poor people to buy food and basic necessities. In these hours, therefore, the social services sector is working to widen the audience as much as possible. entitled to an extraordinary measure that will last 15 days. We are aware of the map of need, or situations that normally fall within the assistance services, but we must and want to do something more. In fact, there are people from Reggio who have entered a state of need. because of the coronavirus emergency, actually losing their job. They obviously have to have access to the amounts available ". "In the same way - added the mayor - there must also be able to count those workers who, up to now, have carried out their duties without a regular contract and, therefore, are not recipients of social safety nets. Here, these interventions must also include the irregular ones because the emergency makes no distinctions and applies to everyone ".

Cosenza, sburocratize the public car
"If we want to continue the journey we need serious proposals and concrete and immediate measures. Immediately the subsidies, but then a great public and private investment plan will be necessary. Only with the subsidies, after a few months, the State would no longer even the resources to pay for essential services, the salaries of public bodies and pensions. If you don't work, you don't produce, if you don't produce, you don't pay taxes that are needed to keep the country going. " The mayor of Cosenza Mario Occhiuto wrote on Facebook. "It therefore takes" work "- he explains - and a policy that stimulates a lot those who want to do business. It takes financial resources but even more an effective de-bureaucratization of the public machine, so that a positive fallout can be possible and immediate investment. "

Fiano Romano, via the allowance to all politicians
Retain the monthly salary for all politicians in April, from mayors to regional presidents, passing through deputies, senators, and managing directors of public or state-controlled companies. This is the request addressed to the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, by Ottorino Ferilli, mayor of Fiano Romano, a municipality on the outskirts of Rome, who sent a letter to the Prime Minister this morning. "You know very well that anticipating the liquidity of the Solidarity Fund for Municipalities is an almost due act, not a regalia - wrote Ferilli - and that integration into the fund will plug some deeper holes, but will not help the families of our communities. You have repeatedly said 'The state is there. " I believe it, and I would like my citizens to believe it too. "According to Ferilli," sacrifice, now, must be asked of all politics, without distinction our citizens need trust, respect. They now need to see credible, authoritative, proba politics. This is why - reads the letter - I ask you: in April, keep the allowances of all politicians, do it also starting from mayors, aldermen, councilors, regional presidents, senators, deputies and CEOs of public companies ".