POTENZA – To “foster the enlargement of the centre-right, in order to give the future city government a majority as large and stable as possible”, the mayor of Potenza, Mario Guarente (Lega), has decided to “take a step aside” in the elections of 9 June, despite having already been designated to lead the coalition by the leaders of the parties that compose it. Guarente himself announced it, expressing the «certainty that this generosity of mine will allow us to identify the best mayoral candidate for the capital city of Basilicata». The centre-right candidate for mayor should be Francesco Fanelli.
«I worked for five years with dedication and seriousness for the city of Potenza. Five years – wrote Guarente – marked by the Covid pandemic which inevitably slowed down projects and programs, but which did not prevent extraordinary results from being achieved. It was an experience that always saw me involved on the front line to try to give due credit to a community with widespread interests, which I tried to protect with attention and respect. I noted with satisfaction the desire of the national and local leaders of the League, Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia and Noi Moderate, to reconfirm me as a coalition candidate also for the next electoral round. To date, once again, my sense of responsibility leads me, however, to have to make a choice that goes in the direction of favoring the enlargement of the center-right, in order to give the future city government a majority that is as large and stable as possible . For this reason I said I was willing to take a step aside if necessary to replicate the centre-right model proposed in the recent regional elections and a winning result. I have never put my personal interests first, and I certainly won’t start doing so now. Potenza, my city, which I was honored to represent as mayor, deserves wise choices. With the certainty that my generosity will allow us to identify the best mayoral candidate for the capital city of the Basilicata Region”, concluded Guarente.
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