In Bagheria, yet another political farce unfolds at the expense of the people. Federico Guzzo, elected with the “Si Cambia” list, publicly denounced having been deceived by those who supported him. But let’s be clear: Guzzo is not an outsider to the system. His closeness to Italia Viva — a party created by the same Matteo Renzi who betrayed his voters time and again — shows that he too was part of the same game.
He claimed to be backing a civic mayor, only to discover he was involved with a party directly founded by the son of Ciriaco De Mita. Later, he found himself side by side with the Christian Democrats of Totò Cuffaro and figures close to Matteo Salvini’s League. He walked away from the majority, but it’s not courage — it’s damage control. The system recycles faces, rebrands parties, and deceives citizens in the name of “change,” just to ensure nothing truly changes.
These manipulations didn’t begin in Sicily. They began with Italy’s unification, when Sicily was handed over to new masters without any self-determination. The Sicilian politicians who betray their people are molded by a rotten structure — a true “Made in Italy” patent of the criminal political system.
Meanwhile, while these professional fraudsters toy with power, the people are starving. Young people can’t afford even cigarettes. Others are driven to drugs. Families are shattered. And then, the media comes in with its headlines about petty crime.
Just yesterday in Catania, police discovered 110 tampered electricity meters. Sirens, arrests, headlines. But does anyone ask why?
Why would citizens do this? Perhaps because the State abandoned them? Article 38 of the Italian Constitution states: “Every citizen unable to work and without the means necessary for living is entitled to maintenance and social assistance.” (If this article were actually enforced, would these arrests even happen?)
Those who steal electricity to heat their homes or bread to feed their families are branded criminals, while politicians like Daniela Santanchè — investigated for massive fraud — remain in power, protected, defended with taxpayer money, and helped by a justice system that lets their trials expire.
And she’s not alone. From Formigoni in Lombardy to the MOSE scandal in Veneto — where a former governor stole millions and returned only a fraction without serving real time — the real criminals walk free, protected by their political status.
The State lets people freeze, starve, and lose hope. Then it condemns them for surviving. The true blame lies not with those who steal to live, but with those who force them into that position.
Every crime of necessity should be judged — but the real punishment must fall on those in power who created the conditions for that crime. Those in office must pay three times the penalty. Even the opposition must be held accountable, because these crimes are not spontaneous — they are induced by a system that turned its back on its people.
They do this while erasing every value of God and family. They erased “mother and father” and replaced them with “parent 1 and 2”. What will Giorgia Meloni shout at the next elections? “I am parent 1”? When children read the Ten Commandments, will they have to honor “parent 1 and 2” instead of “father and mother”?
This is the dystopia we live in. While Italians drown in bureaucracy and poverty, politicians loot the public treasury and brainwash the youth with empty sports wars and ideological confusion.
Sicilia Indipendente will never stop denouncing this disgrace. We urge every citizen to reclaim their constitutional rights — as stated in article 104, paragraph 5 — and to dream, and build, a Sicily that is free, peaceful, and hardworking. A Sicily where no Sicilian must leave their homeland to survive. And where no Sicilian must commit crimes just to live.