“City Council Resolution No. 357 of last June 18 represents one of the most serious points in the ideological drift of this administration. With that act – which grants institutional sponsorship and a financial contribution to the Road to Pride 2026 project, promoted by Arciequa Catanzaro APS – the Municipality is not promoting inclusion, but is embracing a profoundly divisive vision that is light years away from the real needs of the citizens.”
This is the statement of city councilor Eugenio Riccio, a member of the Catanzaro center-right, who firmly calls for the immediate withdrawal of the resolution, addressing Mayor Fiorita directly.
“Institutional sponsorship was not enough: now it is also expected that the citizens of Catanzaro will finance – even with a buffet – an initiative that follows an identity-based and exclusionary logic. Rights are invoked, but the principle of fairness and impartiality that every administration should guarantee is trampled upon. By doing so, an unacceptable ideological colonization is being institutionalized.”
Addressing the president of Arciequa Catanzaro, Riccio is clear:
“It is completely illogical for an association to demand public resources for an event that not only does not unite, but divides, stigmatizes, and marginalizes those who do not align with a certain way of thinking. Institutions belong to everyone, not to those who shout the loudest.”
There is also a harsh passage regarding the Democratic Party:
“We are facing a city PD in disarray, in full identity and organizational confusion. A party that intervenes on and off: today in ‘Red Aid’ of the Mayor, tomorrow dealing with internal feuds and cross-accusations, like those made by Doris Lo Moro herself against the so-called ‘Lametina clique.’”
The councilor also attacks the regional secretary of Sinistra Italiana, Giulia Grandinetti, who in a statement expressed the desire to bring LGBTQIA+ topics into schools and introduce the so-called Alias career:
“Ms. Grandinetti, until yesterday completely unknown in the regional political scene, today proposes herself as the promoter of a school re-education project. But perhaps she ignores – or pretends to ignore – that the Alias career is a tool without legal basis, rejected by the Constitutional Court itself in ruling no. 143/2024, which reaffirms the principle of correspondence between name and sex. The introduction of ideological topics in schools, disguised as good inclusive intentions, is a distortion that we firmly reject.”
For Riccio, the issue is not cultural, but political and institutional.
“We are faced with the improper use of public institutions to convey ideological visions that have nothing to do with the founding values of our society. Identity impositions are disguised as inclusion, undermining social cohesion and offending the sensibilities of the silent majority.”
Hence the appeal, addressed not only to the center-right but also to the Catholic world, civil society, and those areas of the center-left that still believe in tradition and common sense:
“We need a broad and united front to demand, without hesitation, the withdrawal of the resolution.”
“If the Mayor does not step back – Riccio concludes – I officially ask that the united center-right take the lead in an indefinite blockade of the City Council’s work. This is not an ideological battle, it is a duty towards the citizens who entrusted us with the representation of their values. The city of Catanzaro cannot and must not become the laboratory of a progressive agenda disconnected from reality. We have already seen – with the experience of the Roma camps – where ideological impulses without pragmatism lead: to unmanageable problems, festering over time. Let’s not make the same mistake under the banner of ideological inclusion.”
