The center left closes ranks and closes the perimeter of the coalition. Peace made between the mayoral candidate, Antonio Gengaro, and the civic formation “Avellino Takes Part”. This morning, at 11, right in the electoral committee of Piazza Libertà, the App representatives will announce their support for Gengaro in a press conference. The association, from the very beginning an integral part of the broad field together with the Democratic Party, the 5 Star Movement, the Italian Left, It is possible and against the windhad abandoned the coalition table in breach of the method adopted for choosing the top candidate.
Then the resumption of dialogue in recent weeks and the reassurances received from the candidate for the tricolor band regarding the need to promote both in the lists and in the council, in the event of victory, the presence of under 40s and women, as well as on sharing the programmatic platformon the need to review the municipal statute as a tool for active citizen participation, therefore to make an administrative change both in the practices to be adopted and in the people to be indicated in administrative roles.
App will be present in the coalition with its own team which will also include candidates from “Più Europa” and “Together for Avellino and Irpinia”, the presence of exponents of “Per” is not excluded. The head of the list will be Francesco Iandolo, outgoing group leader of “App” who spent five years in the city council sitting on the minority benches. Also on the list are Pasquale Luca Nacca, spokesperson for “Together for Avellino”, Mauro Napolitano, representative of local associations in the world of associations, Sara Anastasia, operator of the Italian Association of People with Down Syndrome. App’s list will therefore be the fourth list in support of Gengaro. The Democratic Party is also working on its flagship team which, according to what we learn, still has a few boxes left to fill.
The entire outgoing council group should be on board, the only one who has not yet dissolved his reservations is Franco Russo. In recent days the long-awaited clarification between the outgoing team and the mayoral candidate would have arrived. They will also be on the list former councilors Modestino Verrengia, Nicola Poppa, Leonardo Festa, Tonino Iannaccone, the former councilor for social policies, Teresa Mele, the manager Maurizio Giovanniello, Annamaria Pascale of the committee to defend public water. The coordinator of the provincial secretariat, Enza Ambrosone, has not yet decided what to do. Not only party representatives but also representatives of civil society. Among them, the lawyer Elvira Festa and the university professor Ada Famiglietti should also be in the Democrats’ list. The former group leader of “Si Pu”, Amalio Santoro, will lead the second list in which Sinistra Italiana, Controvento and other associations also participate.
Among the candidates are the coach of Virtus Ariano Irpino, Antonio Bellizzi, son of Gennaro, late president of Controvento, the doctor Agostino De Rosa and the lawyer Annamaria De Stefano, already candidates in 2019 with the left-wing list and professor Roberta De Maio, sister of the lawyer Benedetto De Maio initially identified as a candidate for mayor, a role she then abandoned for personal reasons. The presence of Paola Anna Gianfelice, head teacher of the “Mancini” scientific high school, is also probable. The list of the Five Star Movement has also been defined, which should be headed by the outgoing group leader Ferdinando Picariello and which will be made up of historic militants and new faces. Lists that must be filled out, signed and submitted by May 11th. This is why Gengaro himself announced the opening of the headquarters in Piazza Libertà, from 10am to 1.30pm and from 5pm to 9pm, for those who wish to receive information or sign in support of the candidates of the four lists linked to him, as well as for collect material useful for the electoral campaign. The official opening of the electoral campaign is scheduled for Monday 6 May at the Viva Hotel. Even the big party names will arrive in Avellino, the only Campania capital to vote in June.
In support of the broad camp, the president of the senators, Francesco Boccia, the deputy Piero De Luca, and the vice-president of the dem group in the Chamber, Toni Ricciardi from Irpinia, will arrive from the Democratic Party, as well as the vice-president of the Five Star Movement, Michele Gubitosa, the senator of the Italian Left, Beppe De Cristofaro, the deputy of Green Europe, Francesco Borrelli.
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