Municipality of Salerno, director Picardi resigns: farewell after the poisoning

It was the November 10, 2022 when the appointment becomes official. The following day, Friday – not surprisingly – the first official meeting with the president of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, to receive deliveries. At a distance of a year and a halfHowever, everything has changed. Yesterday, in fact, the one who was supposed to be the deus ex machina of a slow and engulfed administration took a step back.

The general director Matteo Picardi he resigned. Those who saw him in recent days noticed how he was increasingly thoughtful and isolated, confirming the rumors reporting an irreparable rift with his governor De Luca and, therefore, also with respect to the mayor, Vincenzo Napoli and his closest entourage. Probably, the last straw, the definitive one that breaks the camel’s back, flowed with the incident on the budget forecast made to vote by the city councilors despite the fact that it contained an error in the calculation of the debt coverage of City Palace.

But this, perhaps, was only the pretext – the most concrete and striking one – to end a relationship, that between the director and the top management, which was experienced more as a forced coexistence than as a love story. «He stuck to his positions, thanks to the mandate received directly from President De Luca. But that trust is not a blank bill of exchange, we must know how to maintain it by influencing the issues. However, this was not the case», tell the drafts of Guerra Palace.