He doesn’t hide that this is perhaps the most difficult challenge for him. She doesn’t shy away from questions. Not even to the one about General Vannacci, his leader in the southern constituency, he who is a moderate… I know him little, replies Aldo Patriciello, the voters will decide.
There is room for everyone in a district of 12 million inhabitants. The Honorable Venafrano, “Mister 100 thousand preferences” when he was in Forza Italia, stops in his native Molise, in Campobasso, with a press conference and a day that continues with numerous meetings: friends, entrepreneurs, voters and supporters. To which he asks for confirmation of trust and the vote for Patriciello in the League.
Waiting for him at the Centrum Palace are the elite of the Northern League and the regional representatives of the UDC (Cesa’s party in the European elections this time is with Salvini and Patriciello). There are also the two elected in the Region from the Molise we want list, the councilor Gianluca Cefaratti and the vice-president of the Council Stefania Passarelli. And the councilor elected with FdI Armandino D’Egidio. «Vote for the people of Molise. Let’s vote for the only Molise candidate who can get where he needs to go”, the message launched by the UDC coordinator Teresio Di Pietro. And it seems to have already passed in the center-right.
«We are proud and honored that Patriciello is our leading candidate in the South – the secretary of the League Michele Marone opens the meeting –. In Europe he will be the interpreter of our battles, for example against synthetic food and to protect Made in Italy. He is a politician of great ability, experience and tenacity, always ready to listen and gather the requests of the territory. It can be – he also broadens the scope of the appeal to vote – a reference for all Molise people. Let’s unite around him, so that Molise once again has a European parliamentarian who represents our region and the South.”
After leaving the Azzurri, the MP who is aiming for his fifth election in Brussels could have taken simpler paths. Instead he made a difficult and anti-cyclical choice: five years ago the League had the wind in its sails, today – he says it himself with honesty and at his side Marone does not take it badly as it is a fact – in the South it is at its historic low. «But the League is no longer what it was many years ago. It has changed, it is a party that represents administrators and gives voice to the territories, even to the mayors of the smallest towns. In this era in which there is no longer politics, in the League I have found the space to go back to politics, to grow a ruling class.”
On his side, he claims, he has the reputation of the politician of the first republic. For Patriciello, a point of honor because “if I can do a good deed, solve a problem, I do it without looking at the party of the person who submitted it to me.” Therefore we firmly support the Northern League’s proposals to change Europe for the better. “We are not against the EU, we are for correcting the course.” No to synthetic meat and mozzarella, he extends the deadlines for green houses. Differentiated autonomy as empowerment of the political class, he then adds. «I’m going around the college up and down like a spinning top. Everyone complains about healthcare. To those who tell me that with differentiated autonomy, which I would like to point out that started with the Amato government and not with a Northern League government, things will get worse, I reply with a question: but is there differentiated autonomy today? No. This reform, on the contrary, will increase the responsibility of administrators and the awareness that the resources available must be spent with the diligence of a good family man.”
From differentiated autonomy to the autonomy of Molise. «All future choices of national and regional governments will depend on what is decided in Europe. The match on 8 and 9 June is therefore decisive for Molise. Having a voice that can represent Italy, the South and our region is important. For this reason I say to those who don’t want to vote for me: vote for someone from Molise anyway. Because, to be clear and to give a concrete example, whoever votes for Tajani (Foreign Minister and FI leader in the constituency, ed.), chooses him at that moment but will not have him as a representative in Europe. Someone else will replace him and that someone will have no connection, no relationship with Molise.”
Just to be clear and to give a random example.
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