Bridge over the Strait, stop from the State Accounting Office: the Infrastructure decree must return to the Council of Ministers

The project of the Bridge over the Strait of Messina is back at the center of a heated political clash following recent observations made by the General Accounting Office regarding the Infrastructure decree. According to complaints from the Democratic Party group leaders in the Environment and Transport Committees of the Chamber, Marco Simiani and Anthony Barbagallo, the modifications requested by the accounting control body would represent a significant rejection of the project, highlighting structural uncertainties that continue to weigh on the entire planning process. The Democratic representatives have described the current situation as a true therapeutic obstinacy, officially urging the Meloni Government to acknowledge the difficulties and to definitively shelve the infrastructure.

The crux of the criticism concerns the obligation, emphasized by the technicians of the General Accounting Office, to proceed with the activities without incurring new or greater burdens for public finances, tying the progress of the works exclusively to the resources already available. For Simiani and Barbagallo, this limitation certifies the instability of a project that continues to undergo changes in timelines and economic prospects. Instead of witnessing real progress at the construction site, the opposition laments a succession of delays and technical adjustments that keep the project in a state of perpetual stalemate, fueled more by propaganda than by solid industrial planning.

In conclusion of their statement, the PD parliamentarians urged the executive to end the season of announcements to concentrate state funds on interventions deemed priority and immediate for the citizens. The request is to redirect investments towards the modernization of railway networks, the extraordinary maintenance of the existing road system, and the enhancement of public transport, with particular attention to the chronic infrastructural deficiencies of the Mezzogiorno. The debate remains open as the decree, supplemented with the observations of the General Accounting Office, moves towards the subsequent parliamentary steps for final conversion.