“There is a need to change things. The rest is just useless chatter. I’m tired of hearing about who would be behind me. Behind me is my story. There are good people, honesty and my hard work.” Thus the centre-left candidate, Domenico La Marca during a passionate rally in Piazza Stella in Manfredonia together with the governor Michele Emiliano and to the mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, the latter running for the European Parliament.
“I have worked to improve the living conditions of migrants and I am proud of what I have done – continued La Marca -. There are those who have done and those who have only talked. I won’t be as good as many politicians who participate in talk shows, but I don’t mince words and I always look people in the eye. Without camouflage. They are not a bluff created on the table imported from who knows what place in Italy as happened in the last elections, they are – and we are – capable of understanding and wanting”.
Then La Marca promised commitment to cleaning the city, the southern coast and hiring in the ASE. And again, fight against illegal activity, patrols in the center after midnight, garrison in Borgo Mezzanone and respect for the tourist tax. The cost of paid parking will also be revised.
“And we want a strengthened hospital as required by protocol and an emergency room that can respond to needs of the population“. She asked for anesthetists and medical equipment, asking Emiliano for help and support.
“You here must make it clear that the people in charge of this city are the mayor and the administration. Only in this way will you be able to restore legality and rules – began the governor -. I hope to do one with you as soon as possible meeting for the hospital. We need to make sure that people want to live in Manfredonia. Decaro can be your teacher.”
“Domenico believes in change – added Emiliano, vigorously addressing the square -. They will try to make fun of him but he will decide and choose the right people.” Then looking at the Manfredonian candidate: “Tonight you are wearing tennis shoes, jacket and t-shirt: many will think: ‘This is what the mayor has to do?’. And yet it is precisely for this reason that you are credible, because you dressed the way you always dressed. You didn’t present another face. You showed your face! You will get back on its feet and restore dignity to this city“.
Same charge from Decaro: “You will be responsible for everything and you will not be able to say that there are issues that are not your responsibility. When you are mayor you will have to meet your community every day. Mayors are the crazy people that citizens go looking for“.
Finally, attacks on differentiated autonomy and government choices that would penalize the south. “We must make our children dream by fighting against differentiated autonomy and respecting the commitment of Giuseppe Di Vittorio, born a few kilometers from here. Di Vittorio dreamed of seeing laborers from the south and workers from the north together to defend their rights. My hope is to continue walk without stopping dreaming for a south with your head held high in Europe. Long live Manfredonia, long live Domenico”.
