Roads, roundabouts, cemeteries, pine forests: 102 million tips in January

It is not easy to get to Trasquera, a handful of houses in the mountains of the upper Verbano about forty minutes' drive from Domodossola. But the manoeuvre made it. Or rather, an order of the day approved yesterday in Montecitorio to direct the resources of the fondino destined by the majority to the 'gratuity decree', expected in January as last year. Which in this small town, evidently dear to the Lega, signatory of the agenda, brings 4.5 million over three years, or 24,725.27 euros for each of its 182 inhabitants, to 'implement measures aimed at territorial continuity'.

But there is of course not only Trasquera on the Christmas sleigh of this tail end of the budget law. With a millimetric precision that is in some ways commendable, yesterday the Chamber of Deputies managed to take care of, for example, the 'road section of Via Cadorna and Via Cavour' in Bolgare, in the province of Bergamo, to which it directed EUR 140,000 thanks to another Carroccio agenda. While in Via Italia in Seriate, 10 kilometres further west, 250 thousand euros are earmarked for the bridge redevelopment project on the Serio river. Richer is the strenna of Pizzighettone, in the province of Cremona, where 450 thousand euro will arrive over three years to build a cycle path and restore the municipal heritage with what remains.

At least in numerical terms, the palm of generosity goes to Forza Italia this year. In a single agenda, the Azzurri have managed to squeeze in 46 interventions, in a tour of Italy of micro-financing that starts from the Locanda del Samaritano in Catania (€400,000 over three years), stops near Vibo Valentia to give €2.75 million over three years to the Cuore immacolato di Maria di Mileto foundation and €300,000 to the La Goccia association in Via Conte d'Apice, in the capital; then it goes up to Pescara, to replant a pine forest with €500,000. And when he arrived in the north, he built two gyms in Rovigo with EUR 500,000.

More concentrated in the regions of the Centre is Fratelli d'Italia, which with 1.5 million over two years deals with the Aurelia junctions at Banditella and Cupi, in the province of Grosseto, turns over EUR 800,000 to Guidonia Montecelio (Rome) to build a roundabout at the intersection of Rosata and Via Casal Bianco, and still in the vicinity of the capital devotes EUR 500,000 to the fountain walk in Via Gramsci in Lanuvio, EUR 250,000 to the redevelopment of Via Amendola in Mentana, and EUR 300,000 to the cemetery boundary wall in Anticoli Corrado.Then 390,000 euro over three years went to the municipality of Carmagnano. Which, however, does not exist: they were destined for Carmagnola (Turin), but will not arrive.

The anecdote could continue for a long time, without neglecting more substantial proposals such as the 20 million over two years allocated to the Municipality of Alessandria (the city of the Leghist group leader Molinari, signatory of the odg) for the second bridge over the Bormida or the 11.8 million allocated to Novara from the same intervention for a series of infrastructure works.