As we wanted to demonstrate once again, the broad camp remains completely bogged down in the choice of a common candidate for the next mayor of Bari. Nicola Colaianni, former magistrate and parliamentarian, announces his renunciation of unitary representation in the municipal elections in the Apulian capital which will be held on 8 and 9 June. The note issued by the same figure indicated just forty-eight hours ago by Nichi Vendola as a possible first citizen in Southern Italy speaks very clearly: “I give up the attempt and I calmly entrust the two candidates with the task of laying the foundations for mutual support in the further phases of the electoral process“. Colaianni would like to thank a Bari the “numerous people, some unknown before now or long-time abstentionists or even residents in other parts of Italy and therefore animated only by ideal goals – he adds –who expressed solidarity and willingness to accompany this flapping of butterfly wings“.
On Saturday afternoon a first small glimmer of light opened after the name proposed directly by the former leader of the Left Ecology and Freedom, which yesterday was then clearly rejected by Giuseppe Conte, who said no to the mediation name Colaianni also sponsored by Nicola Fratoianni. For the 5 Star Movement, only the lawyer should have remained on the field Michele Laforgia (opposed to the dem Vito Leccese in the primaries of coalitions never held) as confirmed by the former Prime Minister himself: “We must let local forces that know people and contexts work“. A situation – the one underway in Bari – which almost dwarfs the incredible chaos that was unleashed a month ago over the choice of the candidate for president of the Basilicata Region: after “only” four unsuccessful attempts, in the end the Democratic Party and the grillini managed to converge in a time-expired and disorderly manner on Piero Marrese, president of the Province of Matera and challenger to Vito Bardi in the Lucanian vote next Sunday and Monday .
She also spoke on the topic Elly Schlein: “Yesterday, Vito Leccese and Michele Laforgia, the two candidates for mayor of Bari, met to discuss. We are with Vito Leccese, a mirrored person and I told him that we are with him even if he still wants to try a unified path“. The national secretary of the Democratic Party has not yet made peace with Conte after the Apulian affair: “We continue to work on building an alternative to the right, also thanks to our community – states the dem leader during a conference to the foreign press -. This community deserves respect and I don’t need advice or anything else to do what I was elected to do“. Our voters, he still claims, “they are tired of condominium disputes between neighbors. Of course, this community demands respect. Nobody should reduce her to a speck, I don’t accept this“.
Colaianni, in his statement today, tells in detail how the events that characterized the last stormy weekend in Bari unfolded: “I accepted with a spirit of service the proposal to stand as a unit for the centre-left to avoid the division feared by many – explains -. I guaranteed the two candidates, and the forces that support them, equal dignity, control over the cleaning of the lists, transparency and, of course, legality“. However, in the end, he forcibly had to find that, “despite the substantial ideal and programmatic convergence, stiffness remains which do not make a composition possible“. A little more than two weeks after the definitive presentation of the electoral lists, the centre-left is therefore still without a candidate, while in the centre-right everything has already been decided and communicated in recent days: in the challenge to succeed Antonio Decaro as mayor of Bari will be the Northern League player html” data-ga4-click-event-target=”internal”>Fabio Romito.
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