TERAMO. It is the office of deputy mayors, current and former, who challenge the outgoing mayors. In the administrative elections in the municipalities of the Teramo hinterland, various electoral clashes will take place within the current administrations or in any case within the teams that have governed together in the past.
The most striking case is that of Torricella Sicura where the current vice mayor’s candidacy for mayor Monica Di Blasio it even led, in a few days, to the change of challenger: instead of the outgoing councilor and president of BIM Marco Di Nicola will be the mayor in office Daniele Palumbi to run for a fourth consecutive term. Di Blasio was in administration for fifteen years with Palumbi and Di Nicola. A rupture, hers, which, as Palumbi explained, «has undermined the unity of the majority group and which leads me to continue and complete the virtuous path started». Same dynamic in Ancarano: here is the outgoing player Angelo Panichiwho is also running for the fourth term in a row, will be challenged by his deputy Elisa Forliniwhich has already presented its list.
Clash “at home” also in Collledara where to challenge the mayor in office Manuel Tiberiiwho takes the field for the third consecutive term, is his former first-term vice mayor Gesidio Frale. Not yet certain, but a duel in Montefino between the current mayor is possible Ernesto Piccariwho is running again for the fourth consecutive mandate, against what the rumors say for his opponent, his former vice mayor for ten years and two council terms, Luigthe Giammarino. The same situation could occur in Arsita where the mayor is in office Catiuscia Cacciatorewho has not yet made his candidacy official, could find his current deputy as an antagonist Ettore Trosini. In Tossicia, the clash between a former mayor who returns to office, Franco Tarquiniand a former advisor of his, Nando Timoteowith whom he shared years of administration and projects.
In other municipalities, however, the “normal” conflicts between sides remain. Encore challenge in Penna Sant’Andrea between the mayor in office Severino Serranire-nominated for the third term, and the opposition group leader and already Serrani’s challenger in the previous electoral round Nicola Salini. Between continuity and total renewal in Cellino Attanasio and Fano Adriano. In the municipality of the middle Vomano the mayor in office Giuseppe Del Papa which aims to achieve the third consecutive mandate sees the contrast of Giovanna Modesti who does not boast a political career behind her, but only a candidacy as councilor who was not elected in 2014. A neophyte in municipal elections Francesco Riccioni who in the mountain municipality will try to beat the current mayor, running for the second term, Luigi Servi. Possible election to a single list, with an antagonistic quorum which however is no longer the bugaboo of the past because the new provisions have lowered it to 40% and without the calculation of the Aire (Italians residing abroad), in Castiglione Messer Raimondo and in Rocca Santa Maria where the mayors are in office Vincenzo D’Ercole And Lino Di Giuseppe they are running alone so far: D’Ercole for the second term and Di Giuseppe for the third.
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