«There is a solution – according to Conte -, how many of you are in this San Paolo neighborhood, 25 thousand? Imagine that you convince those who are not thinking about the importance of this vote, that the San Paolo neighborhood goes to vote en masse, so if you decide to go and vote en masse, can you pay 50 euros for a vote? This system is based on abstentionism, if we go to vote en masse the bought vote will count for nothing.”
Laforgia: «We cannot allow Bari to be dissolved due to the mafia»
The question of the connections between the mafia and politics, which led to 130 arrests in the month of February and led to the arrival of the inspection commission of the Interior Ministry (“which will probably conclude its work in September, after the new mayor and the new arrived») thelawyer Michele Laforgiaexpression of a list of centre-left civics supported by the Cinquestelle, «we cannot afford to be relegated to a dissolved municipality due to mafia infiltration and for this reason we have the vote available for the candidate and candidates different from those we have had so far, for a profound renewal of the city council, for a new political class”.
Leccese: «The truncheon passed from Gasparri to Laforgia»
The reply from the centre-left candidate was not long in coming, Vito Leccese (Pd, Verdi and others) to the words of Laforgia. «Dissolution is the specter that the centre-right has been waving like a truncheon throughout the electoral campaign. Now I see that the truncheon has passed from Gasparri’s hands to those of Laforgia. I must say that it is sad to see a person with his political culture who, after having participated in the street demonstration in support of Antonio Decaro against the commission’s blitz, now stoops to repeating the threats of the right. But we will get over it and continue to move forward with a smile.”
