Procurement, the League against Busia: “Serious and unspeakable sentences, if he thinks they are all corrupt he can no longer lead the Anac”

“Serious, unspeakable and uninformed statements by President Busia on the Salvini Code: if he talks like this about thousands of mayors and thinks they are all corrupt, he can no longer stay in that role. Busia has control duties, instead he certifies that he is biased, not neutral and therefore not credible”. Thus Stefano Locatelli, head of the local authorities of the League, after the words of the president of the national anti-corruption authority Giuseppe Busia.

Busia had started from some general considerations («The real point is not to build any school or any road, as quickly as possible, but to build good schools and good roads. Focusing only on speed risks to the detriment of transparency, competition , protection of workers and ultimately the quality of public works»). But even more some assessments have extremely irritated pieces of the majority: are you afraid that the Municipalities will entrust the work to a friend of a friend? «Yes, I see the risk – explained Busia -. Especially for direct assignments under 140 thousand euros, from the purchase of chairs to the work to paint the school. Those closest to the manager, mayor, or alderman may be called. And reducing transparency increases the risk of corruption, especially now that there are so many resources». Phrases in which the League sees disinformation and a prejudiced attitude not compatible with the role.

Busia is instead defended by the Democratic Party. “We find the attacks that the representatives of the League address to the President of the National Anti-Corruption Authority very serious,” says the president of the senators of the Democratic Party Francesco Boccia. «Busia’s fault is only that of forcefully denouncing the critical issues of the new procurement code. Behind the request for speeding up lies the lowering of the quality of the work and the increasingly strong risk of even more massive infiltrations of organized crime. Let the right know that Busia’s concerns are ours.”