It is crouched down there, almost at the bottom of the boot, but the reason why, despite the imminence of Sunday’s vote, Basilicata seems to have been put in the drawer of vanished dreams by the contracting parties themselves of the precarious centre-left alliance, is not geographical, and almost forgotten in the weeks preceding the vote, despite the uproar previously unleashed around the name of the gubernatorial candidate. Bailamme who held court for many weeks in the region nicknamed “Texas of Italy”, cradle of oil deposits, while in the centre-right, where not everyone initially agreed in supporting the outgoing governor Vito Bardi, the hope of winning has grown in way indirectly proportional to the discouragement that was spreading in the other camp, where the wide field imagined by Elly Schlein has in the meantime become very narrow: no centrists, because the chosen candidate, Piero Marrese, former president of the province of Matera, is supported by the Democratic Party, M5s and Avs but not by Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda, and with a big boulder in the middle, in the form of investigations in Bari, those that caused the crisis to explode in the already problematic political relationship between the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein and the m5s leader Giuseppe With you.
It is crouched down there, almost at the bottom of the boot, but the reason why, despite the imminence of Sunday’s vote, Basilicata seems to have been put in the drawer of vanished dreams by the contracting parties themselves of the precarious centre-left alliance, is not geographical, and almost forgotten in the weeks preceding the vote, despite the uproar previously unleashed around the name of the gubernatorial candidate. Bailamme who held court for many weeks in the region nicknamed “Texas of Italy”, cradle of oil deposits, while in the centre-right, where not everyone initially agreed in supporting the outgoing governor Vito Bardi, the hope of winning has grown in way indirectly proportional to the discouragement that was spreading in the other camp, where the wide field imagined by Elly Schlein has in the meantime become very narrow: no centrists, because the chosen candidate, Piero Marrese, former president of the province of Matera, is supported by the Democratic Party, M5s and Avs but not by Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda, and with a big boulder in the middle, in the form of investigations in Bari, those that caused the crisis to explode in the already problematic political relationship between the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein and the m5s leader Giuseppe With you.
And even if yesterday Schlein went to Matera and Potenza to give his final support to Marrese (with a hug to the mayor of Bari Antonio Decaro, who announced primaries in the Apulian capital and candidacy for the European elections), and even if Conte had made his appearance a few days earlier praising himself (“in Matera you know me well: competence, professionalism, transparency”) and then quoting Marrese for the bitterly ironic slogan “better late than Bardi”, who knows what he, the candidate, must think in his heart: he who was left alone in the face of the fait accompli in Potenza and the destroyed camp in Bari.
In short, whichever way you take it, the road is to say the least impervious, if only for the saturation caused in Lucanian public opinion by the various dances around the great nothingness that until recently reigned over the names on the left, starting with that of the ophthalmologist Domenico Lacerenza, thrown to the media as if he were really on the pitch, but left the arena in a flash. Not to mention the days when we were thinking about the candidate-mirage of a hypothetical very wide field, namely Angelo Chiorazzo, third sector entrepreneur and man at the crossroads in the days when no agreement was found and he dealt the cards, as if to say: or choose one that I like or bye.
And so we started again from the start, always remembering backwards the moment in which it was thought possible to nominate the former minister Roberto Speranza (not available). “Without unity we would have made a mistake”, Chiorazzo finally said in siding with the belatedly chosen Marrese, to whom only a generous and ecumenical Pierluigi Bersani, in recent days, has paid a wishful thinking on social media: “There is a place to be enlarged here, I see. Let’s transform a comeback into a good victory”, wrote Bersani, aiming straight at the government that wants differentiated autonomy: “I would like to say this to President Bardi: you know that if they do it, differentiated autonomy, the gap between the regions explodes ?”. Here you go, Bardi. The outgoing governor, former financial police, chosen five years ago by Silvio Berlusconi, today will instead see all the centre-right leaders lined up in support of him in Potenza and at the same time, united ex post on his name but still united .
Not only that: two days ago Bardi received the final praise from the leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi: “With Bardi this region can grow”. And to think that, after the victory of the centre-left in Sardinia, someone had thought that Bardi, although loved by many for the “gas bonus” (with easing bills for residents), was destined for a Marrese-style fate: that is, left alone to fight the electoral campaign. But the events in Bari have turned the tables, and now the outgoing governor, who five years ago had welcomed the victory in disbelief, finds himself also reaping the fruits of other people’s mistakes. “Another Basilicata is possible,” says Marrese meanwhile with a self-motivating tone. Possible, yes, but when?
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