The decision is destined to be discussed Laura Nargi to show the images of at the end of his electoral campaign Gianluca Festa. A choice that she defends: «It’s a video that tells a salient episode of our administrative activity, we also proposed others, we couldn’t show that one without its main protagonist. That would have been hypocritical“, He says. The civic candidate who ended up in the prosecutor’s investigation with a hypothesis of a crime that links her to Festa (criminal association), therefore wanted not to pay homage to her mayor for five years, but only to give him back the role that belonged to him re-proposing the images of his encounter with the rector of the University of Salerno on the day of the start of engineering courses in the city.
Obviously the applause, the tears of the audience, the «Gianluca–Gianluca» who left together with the standing ovation, were the effect of those images on the big screen. A gamble? «No, it was simply the story of what really happened, we couldn’t cut that video eliminating The hero. I defend that experience, I don’t deny it. I also believe that criminal responsibility is personal, and that I bear no responsibility. Anything to regret from the past?, I would say no» adds Nargi. «A beautiful story of the journey we have taken and what we will do. Was Festa in the video on the start of courses at the University of Salerno? But we cannot erase what we have built in recent years with the mayor.” «And then he is not a candidate, I told the story of the past», says Laura. «I have never distanced myself from what we did. You can’t deny what he did.”
Four teams are on the field in support of Nargi, the two teams created by his predecessor, Gianluca Festa, “Really” And “Long live freedom“, the one set up months ago by Nargi herself, “We are Avellino“, and the last, more centrist one, organized by the outgoing councilor Carmine De Sapio, “For Avellino”, which was then excluded by the electoral commission. In the list “Really” candidates are the outgoing councilors Antonio Genovese, Marianna Mazza, Giuseppe Negrone, the former group leader, Elia De Simone, and the outgoing councilors Ugo Maggio, Luigi Preziosi, Mario Spiniello, Jessica Tomasetta, Giovanna Vecchione, Michele Lombardi. With them also the former Petittians, Antonio Cosmo and Gianluca Gaeta, and some administrators of past councils, such as Antonio D’Avanzo. Also on the Festian list is the historic leader of the green and white fans, Francesco Iannuzzi.
The list closed at twenty-four nominations “Long live freedom” where the outgoing group leader Giovanni Cucciniello, the former councilor Teresa Cucciniello and her colleague, Monica Spiezia, who was in opposition for five years in the ranks of the League, found their place. No boxes left empty in “We are Avellino” where Nargi has enclosed her very personal team. Among the candidates is Alberto Bilotta, former city councilor in the past with the Center Union. Among the aspiring councilors on the third list is also the designer Fabio Liberale, present in the list in 2019 “Avellino More” in support of the center-left and Luca Cipriano, the accountant Luigi Mattiello, the social and health worker Gerardo Rocchetta.
Nargi had announced her candidacy less than two hours after the news of the confirmation of house arrest for Festa. Nargi herself was joined by information of guarantee and from house search. An act necessary, according to his lawyers, due to his role as number two in the Festa administration. In the city council since 2013, when she was elected from the ranks of the Democratic Party, of which she was also regional manager, she has certainly gained greater political-administrative experience in the five years of government of the city which she lived as a protagonist alongside Festa, managing , an almost unique case among former councillors, to carve out a role that is clearly recognizable from the outside. She herself had announced in unsuspecting times that she had organized a list that she would lead, but she had to take on the greatest burden of running for mayor five years early.
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