Autonomy and competitiveness. “You can collaborate with Meloni,” says Manfredi

The mayor of Naples is worried by Calderoli’s proposal: “Privileging the regions to the detriment of the municipalities doesn’t work”. And on the Pnrr: off to new plants, while for local-scale funds, relations with the government must be cultivated: “It must work”

Evidently, the De Luca model must not like him very much. “In what sense?”. He, the president from Campania, does not let the unemployed who protest into the regional palace. And instead Gaetano Manfredi, mayor of Naples, postpones the interview for two hours compared to the agreed time. “I had to receive them: they are people who must be listened to if one wants to try to solve their problems. And that of work, here, is a huge problem”. To which we have to start with the Citizenship Income: do you trust the reform in which the government is involved? “I am very worried, I confess. Because I don’t quite understand how to proceed. This too categorically discriminates between employable and not: but ’employable’ is a very elusive category. Among the potential employables there are, for example, many over-fifty-year-olds with very low schooling, who have been expelled from the world of work for years”. What to do? “We in Naples have assigned public utility jobs to recipients of the Rdc. It’s a good way to easily distinguish between those who want to get a job and those who just want a handout.” How did it go? “85 percent of those contacted agreed to work.”