BUSTO ARSIZIO – They tried to follow in the footsteps of Pietro Pensa, the engineer from Busto Arsizio who has been mayor of for almost ten years Esino Lario in the mountains of Lecco, but they didn’t make it by a handful of votes. Just 23 were missing Mamo Pedrani, bustocco by adoption and candidate for mayor a Gignesearound sixty instead Franco Giuriatothe former policeman of Caronno Varesino who tried to wear the tricolor sash a Valstrona.
Gignese here
Both municipalities are in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and the aspiring mayors on the move are at home in those areas like many people from Varese who populate them in the summer and winter months reaching their holiday home. Massimo Pedrani in Gigneseknown as Mamo – entrepreneur and pharmaceutical researcher who he grew up in Busto Arsiziohe spent his youth and often returns with his Mamo’s Band of which Gigi Marrese is the artistic director – waited a year to climb to the Town Hall. Twelve months ago both he and his challenger Vincenzo Titone, a retired teacher, had been stopped by the Court of Appeal for a formal irregularity in the filing of candidatures. The face-to-face meeting took place on Saturday and Sunday at the polls and yesterday, Monday 10 June, it was the victory celebration Titone, who becomes mayor with 312 votes against Pedrani’s 289. Who will have to console himself from the opposition by returning to sing with his band.
Valstrona here
Very similar scenario in the Municipality of Valstrona. Franco Giuriato from Caronna, 75 years oldcurrently an entrepreneur in the cleaning sector after having served in the Carabinieri, he had promised to dedicate himself full time to the community and also to give up part of the allowance to allocate it for social purposes. But the 314 votes obtained with his civic list “Together for Valstrona” they were not enough, compared to the 378 that rewarded his rival Ivan Rainoldi, outgoing deputy mayor who ran in continuity with his predecessor Luca Capotosti, who served two terms as mayor. A difficult challenge: Giuriato came closebut will have to settle for leading the opposition in the city council.
