Heading into the local elections: "Those who love Viareggio won't erase its legacy."

Viareggio, July 21, 2025 – Mayor Giorgio Del Ghingaro's first reaction to the center-left's project outlined on Saturday ahead of next year's local elections comes directly from him. But for the mayor, this "newly formed center-left project has so far produced little in terms of content and vision, but a great deal in terms of resentment. Resentment toward the free and civic majority that has governed Viareggio for ten years, and resentment—personal and direct—toward the mayor who led this process." In particular, the mayor is surprised "by the ease with which some, in that 'construction site,' dismiss the entire administrative process of this decade. 'Discontinuity' is invoked as if it were, in itself, a badge of political authenticity. But the city's future isn't being discussed: it's simply a pretext," the mayor continues, "to exclude a priori those who have worked seriously to change it. The truth is that they aren't really criticizing the choices made, but those who carried them out. They're attacking me, the mayor. And they do it with anger, resentment, often with personal hatred."

But, according to the mayor, facts speak louder than opinions: " Viareggio ," he recalls, "has emerged from the ruin, from the rubble that construction site had created. It finally has urban planning regulations and will soon have a structural plan. The public works completed and underway have transformed the city. Culture has regained its leading role, social policies have been consistent and concrete, and the environment has been at the center of innovative decisions. Viareggio has regained its tourist appeal; it is more vibrant, seductive, and has regained its lost dignity, even at the national level. It is legitimate to discuss, propose different visions, and improve. But erasing everything for strategy or personal resentment, assuming one can even achieve it, is not politics: it is shortsighted. We believe in a project that starts from reality, values what has worked, and looks ahead without becoming entangled in vetoes or resentment."