Reggio Emilia Assuming that my Civic List received double the votes of Marco Massari’s list and that the elections were not won by Massari but by the Democratic Party and, although Marco Massari is the next mayor of Reggio Emilia, he has only one representative in the city council while the undersigned brings double, I want to remind you that the candidate Massari had the Pd who organized his entire electoral campaign with a budget an indefinite number of times higher than mine and with working groups that have been well organized for months and months. The Democratic Party had time to implement a strategy of collecting all the possible and imaginable lists around Massari, while my candidacy was able to count on only three months of actual work, during which I also suffered some well-known defections (see the one with Alleanza Civica). Several people who had expressed interest in joining the list as candidates were in fact forced not to do so to avoid embarrassment in their respective workplaces. One of my candidates received threats for siding with me. Massari has clearly made voting agreements with De Lucia (this is demonstrated by the video published in the days of the vote) and so a good 5-6% of the Civic Coalition went to Massari. This is the only way to explain the low percentage of consensus achieved, after years of excellent work carried out in the area by the list led by candidate Aguzzoli. The vote in Massari was sponsored directly by Luca Vecchi who as mayor, which was very incorrect and deplorable, invited all citizens not to vote for me (see the video published on social media the day before the vote). The Democratic Party has made agreements with Claudio Guidetti, after he had come to me the day before, again for agreements that I did not grant him; then Guidetti on the closing night of the Democratic Party’s electoral campaign defined me and those of my coalition from the stage as the “grandchildren of the fascists”. Unworthy expression. The information, TV and local newspapers, and advertising spaces were entirely occupied by the Democratic Party and the mayoral candidate Massari. Only thanks to the level playing field was I able to say something too. Just reread newspapers and online magazines for proof. Telereggio has constantly supported the Democratic Party, denigrating the centre-right at every opportunity (it is enough to listen to the reports of the news director Franzini to realize this). Well, tell me if in the face of all this the votes I got are few and if it can be said that the fact of having arrived as a coalition “only” at 33% is really the result, as the director of Tg Reggio Franzini, of an incorrect analysis of reality. Yes, perhaps of the sad and overbearing reality of Reggio that I didn’t imagine could get to this point. A reality very far from true democracy.
*Candidate of the Tarquini Civic List for Mayor
