«I know Avellino tile by tile. We will all step on them together and we will get far. A Hollywood actor against us who pretends to know the city and an Alice who for five years he lived in Wonderland without lookinghearing and speaking.” Antonio Gengaro closes his election campaign at Piazzetta Agnes among the flags of Pd, Five Star Movement, Avellino participatory project and Per Gengaro mayor. On stage alongside him are the four leaders of the centre-left coalition, Enza Ambrosone (Pd), Ferdinando Picariello (M5s), Francesco Iandolo (App) and Amalio Santoro (PGs). They are the ones who give him a strong hand.
«We won’t make Avellino become like Stockholm And Barcelona because we are proud of who we are and certain of our ability to enhance and systematize our excellence” he says Ambrosone mocking some of the band’s past releasesformer Mayor Festa. Quotes Danilo Dolci, Iandolo: «Everyone grows only if he is dreamed of. We want an Avellino that walks towards the change without relying on shortcuts, on competitions with questions already in someone’s pocket, on pre-packaged assignments”.
He talks about candidates delegated by others Picariello: «Nargi on behalf of Festa who was unable to be in the match, Genovese due to the decision of the transformers D’Agostino, Petitto and Rotondi». The intervention was very harsh Santoro: «We are not an electoral cartel, but a slice of humanity that recovers the idea of a city as a common good against a corrupt and corrupting system that today finds itself partly as a candidate with the fake center-right civic coalition, partly following of a deputy mayor who for five years was a silent servant of atrocities.”
Gengaro thanks them, takes the floor and immediately attacks his two main competitors. Regarding Rino Genovese, head of the Civic Pact for Avellino, the PD exponent is clear: «Mthe is nice, it’s like those students who don’t study for an entire year and then cut back at the last minute to try, in vain, to pass the exam. He has never dealt with Avellino in his life and it shows, because he doesn’t know her. He describes the neighborhoods like the Bronx but gets the support of those who have governed for twenty years. Ask them to explain why heavy prefabs there is mold and humidity» he says referring to Petitto and D’Agostino. Then he turns to the president of US Avellino, a former ally of Festa who is now a candidate in the European elections for Forza Italia: «Don’t worry, he will also be able to reason with us in the new stadiumwhich will no longer be a mega shopping center but a citadel of sport, because he will not have conflicts of interest as he is not part of our majority. We are more fans than those who need to take selfies with him at the end of the match.”
Then the attack on the outgoing deputy mayor Laura Nargi: «I have defined her and I define her an Alice in Wonderland because for five years he did not see, he did not hear, he did not speak. She didn’t notice rigged competitionsOf unpublished resolutionsOf procurement suspicious. It defines our political party as old and outdated but candid former councilors who have been in the Municipality for twenty years. Luckily the people of Avellino don’t have a ring in their nose, they know that they have paid with their money, that of the Municipality, for the electoral propaganda that someone has built for five years” he says, waving his financial recovery plan of the Municipality where, he adds, “the watchword was spending containment and instead the money of the people of Avellino was used to support an immoral system of power”.
Then a warning about urban planning and construction: «There are no big building developers behind me. We financed the election campaign with collections from my friends and classmates. I warn them: Hands off the city. We will keep our doors open to enlightened entrepreneurs but anyone who thinks they can continue to eat up the Fenestrelle hills will have to deal with me.” Social policies, environment, the city of parks, culture, the citadel of knowledge. These are the programmatic priorities that the centre-left candidate reels off one by one from the stage.
Before addressing the regional councilor of the Democratic Party, Maurizio Petracca: «You said that I received a Ferrari and now it’s up to me to drive it. I hope and know that she is beautiful full of petrol for the commitment that all our candidates are putting in. Even if it’s only a two-seater, if we squeeze in, we’ll all fit in.” The moving memory of his political father, Antonio Di Nunno, the solidarity with Giancarlo Giordano of the Italian Left struck by a serious loss, the revisited quote by Guido Dorso, «The revolution is either Avellinese or it isn’t». Finally, welcomed by the roar, his slogan: «I know Avellino tile by tile. If we trample them one by one all together we will go far.”
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