New earthquake reconstruction
commissioner Vasco Errani vowed Thursday to insist on the utmost
transparency in moves to rebuild parts of central Italy after
the devastating August 24 quake that killed 293 people.
Errani, a former governor of Emilia Romagna who oversaw
reconstruction after a 2012 earthquake in that region, said his
number one commitment is to transparency.
"Spending will have to be accurate, and our primary
commitment will be to transparency in rules and oversight," he
said.
Errani said he would go to the most-damaged areas as
quickly as possible.
"I will "go to the crater, to see and understand."
He said "I will not be a commissioner parachuted in, and
relations with local people are fundamental".
Today he would go to Lazio and Marche, the worst hit
regions, and tomorrow ti Umbria, he said.
Errani said that he was "very ready to work with all
parties" on relief and reconstruction.
He said he was "outside political dialectics".
Errani also said he did not accept the job from Premier
Matteo Renzi to patch up ties between the majority and minority
in their Democratic Party (PD).
"I would never have accepted a post as a way of solving the
dialectics between the PD majority and minority...I'm not a PD
man but a man of the institutions", he said.
Errani acknowledged that reconstruction was still not
complete in his home region, saying 180 families still needed to
be housed in anti-seismic chalet housing known by their Italian
acronym, MAP.
But he stressed that "not even the Wizard of Oz can rebuild
the devastation in historic centres in a very few years".
Reconstruction in Lazio, Marche and Umbria would not follow
a "pre-constituted" model, he said, saying he would liaise
closely with the head of Italy's anti-corruption authority
(ANAC), Raffaele Cantone, and the head of the civil protection
department, Fabrizio Curcio.
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