BARI – «Vito Leccese and I are on the same side. Whoever wins will not oust the others and if we have to go to a run-off we will support each other. But it doesn’t surprise me, it would have been surprising if this hadn’t happened.” This was said by Michele Laforgia, candidate for mayor of the Municipal elections of Bari supported by Convention and M5s, during the recording of the television debate at Graffio on Telenorba with the other two candidates, Vito Leccese, supported by Pd, Verdi and Azione, and Fabio Romito, supported from the united center-right.
During the debate the theme linked to the change and growth of the city was also addressed. «No sane person – said Laforgia – can deny that the centre-left has governed for 20 years and has governed well, making the city take enormous steps forward. However, I believe a renewal of the proposal is necessary, I think a new ruling class must also be proposed.” «The city – he added – has changed, it is very attractive not only for tourism but also for investments. But there is another part of the city that has been left behind, that of the non-central neighborhoods, and more needs to be done for those neighborhoods.”
The split in the centre-left at the Bari municipal elections “I don’t experience it as a drama from a political point of view”: this was reiterated by Vito Leccese, during the televised debate with the other two candidates, Michele Laforgia, supported by the M5s and the Convention, and Fabio Romito, supported by the united centre-right.
«We tried to summarize – he added – but we didn’t succeed. However, it has been a useful debate in recent months for the city’s program.” On the future of the city he continued: «Bari has significantly improved compared to the past, it has a strong attraction from a tourist and investment point of view» but «it must recover the relationship with its seafront».
ROMITO’S WORDS
«Ours is a proposal characterized by discontinuity, we ask the city to move on after 20 years. I believe we need to change pace.” This was said by Fabio Romito, centre-right candidate for the Municipal elections of Bari during the television confrontation at Graffio on Telenorba with Michele Laforgia, supported by M5s and Convention, and Vito Leccese, supported by Pd, Verdi and Action.
«What would I save? The relationship, the bond that Antonio Decaro managed to build with the citizens, recognize me with that approach. Discontinuity is not a rupture, it is changing the page because an era has ended. Going in discontinuity with respect to many things that didn’t go well.” On the investigations and the judicial storm that broke out in Bari in recent months, with arrests for an alleged vote swap, Romito argued: «It will not be the center-right that will benefit from a clear field, it will be the city of Bari that will have advantages from being able to exercise the free right to vote without constraints”. “Bari – he added – has a long way to go, it’s true in some respects Bari has grown but under the glitter of some aspects, Bari still has a lot to do: suburbs, social hardship, transport, technological innovation, support for entrepreneurship youth”.
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