Gela, Trufolo against nominations from above. «Unacceptable, Gela be masters of their destiny»

Grazio Trufolo, former municipal councilor for public works and sport, municipal councilor and national leader of the Liberal Party, returned to the issue of the “candidates dropped from above” during a public meeting between the promoters and candidates in pectore (at the city ​​council) of the lists that support Salvatore Scerra as mayor. «Let me start by saying – he says – that judging people is out of the question. If on the one hand I think that, honestly, we are not in the presence of the best figures that the Gelese ruling class could express, on the other I know, more or less, all five candidates for the office of mayor and they are friends, good people . However, this does not affect my political judgment when I say that in some cases we are in the presence of candidates brought in from above: from Caltanissetta, Palermo and Catania. And this is unacceptable.”

Sorry, today you say that, that they are candidatures dropped from above, but if the centre-right, from Palermo or Caltanissetta, indicated Scerra, he wouldn’t have said anything, or would he?

“False. I attended dozens of tables, we started from very far away. And my request, like that of other friends, the Moderates, the group headed by the Honorable Pino Federico, just to give two examples, has always worked for the unity of the centre-right, with the condition that it was an expression of the local table. Not lowered by that parliamentarian from Caltanissetta or by that other one from Palermo. When they wanted to impose a name on us then we no longer agreed. We chose Scerra here in Gela, together. Without having anything imposed on us by anyone. I hear about candidacies for the city council being imposed: to have this or that political guarantee. If you don’t apply you are no longer my friend. This cannot be admitted. This is why I understand the outburst of the current municipal councilor for public works, Romina Morselli, those posts on social media and then the words said on the radio on the issue of unpresentable people. I feel like sharing her thoughts. Politics must be passion and freedom. Non-imposition.”