Moniga Mayor Pollini’s Farewell Letter and Community Reflection
Timely as it has been for several years now, the mayor of Moniga, Ermanno Pollini, has sent his traditional Christmas letter to his fellow citizens these days, in which, besides greetings, he provides a review of the administrative year coming to an end.
The Mayor’s Farewell Message
This year, however, the mayor’s letter takes on a different tone and especially aims to serve as a farewell letter, since next spring the residents of Moniga will be called to elect the new administrative team.
Ermanno Pollini, who has been leading this town of Valtenesi for eight years, will no longer be able to run for re-election, and therefore, a definitive farewell is entirely natural.
“This is a real farewell,” writes Pollini. “Next spring, my term as Mayor of Moniga del Garda will definitively expire.”
“Managing this municipality all these years has been passionate, but certainly not easy: every decision made has inevitably pleased some and displeased others because all of us, in relation to the public entity and its leadership, have certain expectations that seem sacrosanct and priorities over others.”
“The most challenging task,” Pollini continues, “was perhaps always maintaining serenity of judgment, impartiality, and consistency: it is not my place to judge whether I succeeded or not, but I can assure you that this has been the goal I set for myself at the very beginning of my political commitment.”
Challenges and Recognitions
Many positive aspects were observed during this term; many of which deeply touched the First Citizen himself because, in many cases, it involved “situations of high moral importance or stories of misery and degradation that most of the population perhaps does not even imagine exist in their town.”
Of course, praise also goes to the members of the executive and the municipal councilors, “to the voters and all those who, over these years, accepted to collaborate in any capacity with the Municipal Administration: without them,” says Pollini, “everything would certainly have been more difficult.”
A Political Testament and the Future
And then, naturally, a sort of political testament for who will come after.
“To whoever succeeds me, whether representing political continuity with the current administration or coming from different political backgrounds, I wish them to work, in their turn, serenely for our community.”
“A community that I have seen grow and prosper during these years—like the entire Italian society—and that in the coming future will have to succeed in overcoming local particularisms to finally establish an associative framework with the other six municipalities part of our territorial area of the “Valtenesi”—which we have passionately been working on since 1994—to achieve, concludes Pollini, “milestones that would be unthinkable from the perspective of a single entity.”