It’s time for reckoning in Catanzaro. The European elections have rebuilt the new balance of power and the regional capital city has rediscovered itself as a fiefdom of the League thanks to the boom in votes obtained by the president of the regional council Filippo Mancuso. A vote for the person, rather than the party, many point out. And it is true because, from what we learn, Mancuso is not a member of the League although he was elected to the Assembly of Palazzo Campanella (which he also presides over) on the Northern League list and with the Northern League he presented himself at the European elections taking over twenty thousand votes. Bad nut to crack for Matteo Salvini who knows very well that by statute he cannot appoint a regional councilor in office as coordinator. The only way out is a new commissioner which would allow Mancuso to officially take over the League in Calabria (as promised) after winning the direct clash with the Cosenza parliamentarian Simona Loizzo.
The meeting between Fiorita, Tallini and Guerriero in a car dealership
The League’s disputes are more regional than citywide. There is no doubt that Filippo Mancuso is looking beyond and on the horizon he is working on a candidacy for mayor for the centre-right when the plug on the administration is pulled Flowery. The mayor in office, for his part, moves along a very thin thread, with a Christian Democratic balance: progressive by day, Dorothean by night. In a well-known car dealership in the city, far from prying eyes, he would have met Mimmo Tallini and Fabio Guerriero to discuss a possible shift of its majority towards more centrist positions but the numbers are precarious because the great director of the former Little flowers only has at its disposal Giulia Procopi while the other can count on the support of the alone Veraldi with Donato and Parisi who move independently, unwilling to deal with new palace entanglements. Among other things, the relationship with Francesco De Nisi, regional leader of Action who the Guerriero did not support in the European campaign.
Talerico: “Occhiuto and Cannizzaro are my only points of reference”
Meanwhile Evening he divorced with Taleric and sat down in the Mixed group while wisely waiting. They remain in the camp of the former president of the Bar Association Scarpino and Barberio. The main “knot” of the issue revolves around the figure of Antonello Talerico, regional councilor close to Occhiuto in Regione, much more than a simple municipal councilor at the court of Fiorita. “On the choices of our political group with regard to the events of the Municipality of Catanzaro – explained Talerico himself just yesterday – before returning to Forza Italia I had the opportunity to discuss with President Occhiuto and with the regional coordinator, Francesco Cannizzaro, my the only direct references who wanted my return to Forza Italia, who not only did not place any conditions regarding my permanence in the majority of the mayor of Catanzaro, but also reiterated on the occasion of the press conference of my return, that in the various territories it may happen that there are different political visions within the party, whose interest is to continue to grow and govern in an ever-increasing number of Municipalities”.
Polimeni-Costanzo against Talerico: internal derby in Forza Italia
In other words: I don’t respond to Polimeni And Costanzo (two important city councilors in Forza Italia) but only a Occhiuto and Cannizzaro. The last two are fine with Talerico acting as a “Trojan horse” for the Municipality of Catanzaro and, after all, even the left wing of Fiorita doesn’t mind this situation because the alternative would be to come to terms in broad daylight with Mimmo Tallini or whoever represents him publicly. In this respect, the progressive area thinks the same way as Marco Polimeni and his loyalists who see Tallini as the devil himself. For Fiorita himself it would be better not to go against Occhiuto himself and Talerico represents a perfect link capable of connecting Catanzaro to the regional Citadel. Prediction? In the end, most likely nothing will change. “Moreover, if the Democratic Party has governed at a national level with the League – adds Talerico – I don’t think that my return to Forza Italia (I was already a member of Forza Italia even when I supported Fiorita in the ballot and even when I vote in the council for different practices) may arouse any surprise, more likely, however, that my return to Forza Italia has destabilized someone who, instead of thinking about the growth of the party, thinks about not having competitors and, this interest (or this concern) with my political choices from third parties confirm their existential malaise and the disturbance of their soul due to my simple political presence. Furthermore, subjects who are not recognized by me as natural and/or institutional interlocutors with whom I can accept any type of cross-examination cannot dictate the political line of the party, nor mine, and probably do not even have great consideration from the party. of the Forza Italia Calabria party, as despite their resistance and vetoes both President Occhiuto and the Regional Coordinator, Francesco Cannizzaro, wanted me on their team”.
