A-Infos (en) Italy, UCAD'I #184 - Pre-lucan elections (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

If the Lucanian elections are a precursor of future voter behavior, they 
tell us that the combustion process of liberal democracy and delegated 
representation has developed a flame that threatens to grow stronger. 
Less than half of those entitled to vote voted, 49.8% . This tells us 
that those who will govern have the support of around 26% of voters: 
definitely a good example of participation and democracy, which provides 
less reliable indications than an opinion poll on the real political 
orientations of citizens. The level of disappointment and discouragement 
of the voters reaches ever higher heights, because it is increasingly 
clear that even if they vote nothing or very little changes and that for 
the voters " this or that is equal to me ." And let it not be said that 
it is a matter of indifference because voters have every reason to be 
disgusted after having witnessed the various "ballets" before the vote 
and the choice of candidates. The result of the vote therefore 
plastically expresses the role and function of the owners of the cards.
One of the keys to understanding the electoral results is the 
transhumance of the Pittella clan from the Democratic Party to Action 
and of this into the centre-right coalition, bringing 30,000 votes which 
are the ones that made the difference. In fact, the national and local 
Democratic Party had dumped the Pittella brothers; the first, Gianni, 
because he was involved in the scandal relating to the relations of 
left-wing European parliamentarians with Qatar, the second because 
already President of the Region, accused of crimes relating to the 
management of the health service, he had first been investigated and 
then acquitted, even later degree, from any accusation. Gianni Pittella, 
however, retained the position of mayor of Lauria and the ability to 
direct his personal hectorship, demonstrating the weight of the owners 
of the cards. These aspects of judicial news at a local and even 
European level have many repercussions on the territory because the 
Pittella family consortium, quite legitimately, was still able to act as 
an intermediary to obtain access to community funding and therefore keep 
the consensus alive of his family constituency and his clientele.

A program for the Region

Then there is the issue relating to the management of oil extraction: 
the Eni field located in Viggiano in the province of Potenza is flanked 
by the more promising Tempera Rossa field. headquarters of TotalEnergies 
Italia and home of the Basilicata oil centre. Here the well called 
«Gregolane 2» entered into activity in 2023 with an estimated production 
of around 7 thousand barrels per day. The oil company that manages the 
new well in partnership with Shell and Mitsui, plans to activate another 
one in the wake of the meshes expanded by the Government. We are talking 
about a still exploratory well called «Gordinene 3» for which 
TotalEnergies Italia received a denial from the Ministry of the 
Environment of the previous executive, which raised a series of critical 
issues of the project in relation to the environmental impact. The 
Basilicata Region deemed the documentation insufficient with regards to 
references to seismic risk and waste disposal. Also on standby is the 
"Gregolane 4" well, through which the multinational intends to evaluate 
the potential of the northern part of Tempa Rossa, which has never been 
drilled until now. The entire Basilicata project of TotalEnergies Italia 
involves the commissioning of eight wells, an oil center with a daily 
production capacity of approximately 50,000 barrels of oil, 230,000 
cubic meters of natural gas, 240 tonnes of LPG and 80 tonnes of sulphur, 
a LPG storage center equipped with four road loading points. On the Eni 
front, however, no other wells are planned, in line with the provisions 
of the recent renewal of the concession which does not contemplate other 
extractions, but only ordinary and extraordinary maintenance works.
Political choices are then necessary regarding the future of the Melfi 
plant, belonging to the Stellantis group, whose employment strategies 
are unclear, but which constitutes the main employment opportunity in 
the Region. On the level of the general economy of the Region, 
agricultural policy is of particular importance, due to the presence of 
cultivation of first fruits and investments relating to tourism would be 
essential for further valorisation of the valuable area of Maratea and 
Metapontino, which has the archaeological site of Paestum, located among 
thousand-year-old olive groves.
There are scant and vague traces of these problems in the electoral 
programs which do not even find room for problems such as those of the 
health service in the Region, the subject of many scandals and judicial 
investigations, which have so far constituted the main concern of the 
political class interested in profiting from them through a 
clientelistic management and above all to profit from "health tourism" 
made necessary by the insufficiency and inefficiency of the health 
service in the Region.
If the forces of the reformist left had been able to develop serious and 
credible proposals for at least some of these problems raised to the 
attention of the reader, instead of having to witness the theater of 
clashes between the national secretaries of the parties of the so-called 
camp However, it is perhaps possible that the election results would 
have been different.
But anyway, faced with a fascist government that undermines freedoms, 
leads the country to poverty and disaster, commits it to wars and 
rearmament, the reformist left finds nothing better than to clash over 
who should be the prince of a non-existent and increasingly improbable 
realm.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/04/25/elezioni-antelucane/
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