We will vote in about seventy days. After the short break for Easter, we will have to get serious: the electoral campaign will come to life, there will be lists to close, signatures to collect and programs to present. Until now, Elena Carnevali And Andrea Pezzotta, mayoral candidates of the center-left and center-right respectively, dedicated a lot of time to tours of the neighborhoods. They were among the elderly busy playing cards and at the market buying cheeses. Vittorio Apicella, candidate of the M5S, has not yet been seen in action: he was chosen by activists a week ago and will organize the electoral campaign after the holidays, together with the local city group of Five Star Movement. Then, there is Orio Zaffanella who ran for mayor in September with a civic and is active above all on social media. «After Easter – to put it in the words of Alessandro Carrara, city secretary of the League —, the engine speeds will rise.” The electoral campaign will reach the halfway point.
The former deputy Carnevali still has three stops in the bars before concluding the tour of the neighborhoods (on April 3, from 3.30 pm, she will be in Grumello, in the following days in via Pignolo and in Colognola). From the end of April, you will begin your second tour of the city, this time with electoral leaflets to distribute and proposals to talk about. The candidate’s staff is also busy finalizing the lists that will be presented after Easter. Something new from yesterday: Monica Corbani, currently municipal councilor of Ambiente Partecipazione Futuro, will be a candidate as an independent on the PD list. In the meantime, meetings with the city’s trade and representative associations continue. Elena Carnevali’s agenda is very busy with appointments and all the meetings are also used to build the programme. Then there are the public events. «We started on Saturday with our secretary Elly Schlein. April 7th – he says Alessandro De Bernardis, city secretary of the Democratic Party — there will be the event “Bergamo Europa – Challenges in the world of work” organized by the Bergamo PD. The Vice President of the European Parliament Katarina Barley will be present. In mid-April the time will also come to hold an event to present our list and, between April and May, we will have national political and technical representatives in the city to talk about issues that are close to our hearts, from welfare to culture.” De Bernardis, who often joins Elena Carnevali on the electoral tour, says he has never found a wall against a wall: «I observe a desire to meet Elena, to talk to her. And even when some reports arrive of something to improve, there is a spirit of collaboration and dialogue.” In the next few weeks, when the lists for the European Championships are ready, The electoral campaign of Mayor Giorgio Gori, who is aiming for a place as an MEP, will also be able to accelerate, but for now he is kept on the starting blocks by the party. The mayor’s campaign, it is foreseeable, will be well present especially in the city and could act as a driving force for that of Elena Carnevali: theirs will be a close collaboration.
Lawyer Pezzotta will instead be busy touring the neighborhoods at least until the end of April. He will also continue private meetings with trade associations, institutional figures and the business world. On April 4, at 6 pm, in the Galmozzi Hall in via Tasso, he will present his civic list with the 32 candidates. On 19 April, at the Bergamo Fair, there will be a dinner for the official opening of the centre-right coalition’s electoral campaign with institutional guests. And between the first and second half of April, Pezzotta will present the electoral program, which is already ready. «The air is good, everyone welcomes us well in the neighborhoods – says the Northern League member Carrara, who often accompanies the lawyer on his electoral tour -. In the city there is general discontent on the issues that we have been pursuing for years, such as mobility and safety. These are the first two aspects that pop up wherever we go. In the coming weeks we will have several ministers in Bergamo, like Roberto Calderoli, who has already made himself available. Minister Alessandra Locatelli will also come to give us support. In the Bergamo we want, attention to disabilities will be one of the main cornerstones of the administration. In the event of victory, we are committed to providing a department with specific delegation to disabilities.” Fratelli d’Italia will try to bring Giorgia Meloni to the city, despite the Prime Minister’s many commitments.
The 5 Star Movement will concentrate its electoral campaign on the outskirts of the city. «The Gori council – says mayoral candidate Apicella – has favored the center to the detriment of the neighbourhoods. As soon as we define the operational plan, we will move. We care about the issue of traffic and safety, as well as youth hardship, with alcohol and drug abuse and the increase in eating disorders. We want to understand what is at the basis of the baby gang phenomenon, to try to tackle it. And repression alone is not good. In addition to the themes, we are also working on the list, which is almost complete.”
