Emanuela Corda, Giuseppe Farris, Claudia Ortu, Alessandra Zedda and Massimo Zedda.
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Sardinia Live editorial team
On Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May, citizens are called to the polls to choose the new mayor of the city of Cagliari between Emanuela Corda, Giuseppe Farris, Claudia Ortu, Alessandra Zedda and Massimo Zedda. TIMES AND HOW TO VOTE
In alphabetical order:
EMANUELA CORDA – We contacted Emanuela Corda, national president of “Alternative”, a group formed after the ex-parliamentarian’s departure from the M5S, when the 49-year-old from Cagliari voted in 2021 together with other five-star members to vote no confidence in the Draghi Government. Corda, as indicated by the name of the party, takes the field to offer a “different solution” to citizens. “For decades, the (fake) left and right have been misleading Cagliari’s voters with the mantra ‘let’s start from the suburbs’ – she wrote some time ago on social media -. Then you go and see the conditions San Michele (district of Cagliari, ed.) is reduced to and you understand that this is a no-man’s land.” Together with the former deputy we tried to retrace the steps that led her to propose herself as leader of her city. “I ask you to trust a project: “Alternativa” aims to totally change the method of doing politics”. READ THE INTERVIEW
GIUSEPPE FARRIS – “An alternative project to the last two municipal administrations and to the current alignments in the field for the local elections which will take place on 8 and 9 June in Cagliari”. This is why it was born “CiviCA2024”, civic list which sees Giuseppe Farris as candidate for mayor of the Sardinian capital. Born in 1967, lawyer, former personnel councilor of the Floris council and municipal councilor of Forza Italia, Farris spoke for five months with the citizens of Cagliari regarding what they would like to see achieved by the next municipal administration and consequently came to draw up a program that deals with various topics, which he spoke about on Sardegna Live. “We are free women and men, we do not depend on any party and we have free hands to carry out what the citizens have asked us to do”. READ THE INTERVIEW
CLAUDIA ORTU – Leading the list Popular Cagliari – Classy alternative, which unites Potere al Popolo (of which she is national coordinator) and PCI, is 47 years old and brings with her an important wealth of experience and initiatives. Long active in the solidarity movement with the Palestinian people and involved in the fight against military bases in Sardinia, she is her second ever candidate after the one with Unione Popolare in the 2022 political elections in the single-member constituency. Hers is an “alternative proposal”, in support of the working class, a “radical and non-compromise” candidacy. To our microphones you explained your idea of politics, motivating your choice to run for mayor of Cagliari. “I think it’s right to trust Cagliari Popolare and me because what you see during the election campaign is exactly the same as what you would see afterwards”. READ THE INTERVIEW
ALESSANDRA ZEDDA – ThereThe former councilor for Labor and vice-president of the regional council’s candidacy for first citizen is supported by the centre-right coalition which, after Paolo Truzzu’s five-year term, has chosen to focus on a new name to govern Cagliari until 2029. For Alessandra Zedda, 58 years old, from Cagliari, “Massimo Zedda had the opportunity to administer Cagliari for 8 years as mayor and then as head of the opposition in the Region, and we know well how it went. I have not had the opportunity to be a guide for this city. For the first time there is the possibility of having a woman mayor and in this sense the participation I feel is surprising”. The centre-right candidate has no doubts: “Ours is a novelty that already makes us understand what the future of our city can be: beautiful and special. I invite everyone to vote: let’s choose the leadership of the city in the first round.” READ THE INTERVIEW
MASSIMO ZEDDA – Campo Largo in Sardinia, after the victory achieved in the regional elections, bets again on the alliance between the centre-left and the M5S and presents itself united in the administrative elections of 8 and 9 June under the name of Massimo Zedda, in the Progressives quota.
Born in 1976, with the city government behind her from 2011 to 2019, Zedda takes the field after five years as a regional councilor in the opposition during the Solinas council.
“Cagliari is the place where I decided to live, where I would like many girls and boys to be able to freely decide to live without being forced to leave to look for work, this applies to Cagliari, this applies to Sardinia. For me, Cagliari is a city of extraordinary beauty, which however needs interventions linked to the improvement of daily living conditions. READ THE INTERVIEW
