Adnkronos Rome, May 15 (Adnkronos) – "I was very struck by the words we heard yesterday from Minister Foti who essentially said that the depopulation of the internal areas of this country is difficult to remedy. This is an unacceptable surrender by the Meloni government". Elly Schlein said this on the sidelines of the presentation of Enzo Amendola's book.
"The government is responsible for the cuts to services, the cuts to healthcare, the cuts to schools, the school sizing that steals school autonomy from the most marginalized areas of the country. So it's not like they can give up on the policies they are implementing and that are not solving the issue of how we improve the lives of those who live in internal areas. We say one thing clearly, to avoid depopulation, that is, it is not irremediable as Foti says, to avoid depopulation we need to bring services, bringing services means doing the opposite of what they are doing".
"Putting more resources into healthcare and schools, paying teachers and doctors who go to work in the internal areas better, means avoiding privatizing the post office because the first post offices that risk going under are precisely those in small towns or mountain areas, it means bringing connections and bringing roads. Today I met provincial presidents of the Democratic Party who complained about cuts of one billion and seven, to build the bridge over the Strait of Messina, so far from being friends of the administrators, I'm talking about Salvini and the members of the Northern League, they are taking away the oxygen from local autonomies and when you cut resources to municipalities and provinces everything spills over to those communities, so they shouldn't come and tell us that depopulation cannot be avoided".