Sassari If we were in a cycling race, you might say that the leading riders have just passed the red triangle of the last kilometer and are preparing to launch the final sprint for victory. Since yesterday the five mayoral candidates have entered the final week of the electoral campaign and are gathering their last strength for the meetings they still have on the agenda: Friday it will be the last available day, then there will be electoral silence. Saturday afternoon (from 3pm to 11pm) the polls will open for the European and municipal elections, with the polling stations remaining open Sunday from 7am to 11pm. The counting for the European elections will begin immediately, while for the municipal elections the start will arrive on Monday in the early afternoon.
The days preceding the vote are also traditionally reserved for the big final event in the square promoted by the individual candidates and this time too there was no exception: the rector opened the series on Monday 3 June, in the Hemicycle Gavino Mariotti, candidate of the centre-right, Sardinian, civic and autonomist coalition who launched his appeal to vote, once again illustrated his program and therefore also brought all the candidates of the coalition onto the stage. Wednesday 5 June, however, will be a busy day with three candidates who will compete a few hundred meters away on the stages set up in three symbolic squares of the historic centre: Nicola Lucchi (Civics) will be in Piazza Fiume, Giuseppe Palopoli (Sassari wake up) instead chose Piazza Castello while Mariano Brianda (Constituent for Sassari) will speak in Piazza Tola. Thursday 6th June the last event scheduled in the city lounge with Giuseppe Masciacandidate from Campo Largo.
The electoral campaign was characterized this year by an impressive number of electoral confrontations between the candidates, who after the first in “Nuova Sardegna” were called from all sides, from institutions such as the Segni Foundation to to neighborhood committees. «We have gone from meetings with citizens in bars to those in associations, in recent days there have been many requests – says Mariano Brianda – and unfortunately I won’t be able to satisfy everyone. What emerged is that our model of a policy at the service of citizens has attracted great interest.” Nicola Lucchi, lawyer, will move from meetings in Piazzale Segni to those in the villages of Nurra to the mandatory commitments of his work which will see him in the courtroom today in a hearing in the trial for the Saladdino murder: «Many discussions this year, a enormity – he says –. I traveled around a lot and talked to people, I know the city because I have administered it for the last five years and I have noticed great interest and curiosity from the people.” Giuseppe Mascia these days is meeting «institutions, consortia, sector associations, regional councilors – he says – but also businesses and simple citizens in the neighbourhoods. It is clearly emerging that the city wants to change, it wants strong and real change.” Giuseppe Palopoli is making his staff work: «This electoral campaign is nothing other than the continuation of what I have done in recent years in the city council, identifying the city’s problems, meeting the people and helping to solve them. I work for the humble and the least.”
