PISA
The centre-right government in the cities starts again from civicism. And one of the promoters of this operation with a regional horizon is the mayor Michele Conti who invited six of his colleagues from as many Tuscan capitals who lead center-right coalitions to Pisa for an appointment that will deliberately be outside the acronyms of the traditional parties. Pragmatism is the watchword. Or rather, that politics of doing so dear to Conti’s stylistic code which made him, in the eyes of the Pisans, not only a possible choice, as an alternative to the centre-left, but also and above all reliable beyond and outside of the party secretariats .
So tomorrow at 5pm at the chalet café bistro in Pisa the mayors of Arezzo (Alessandro Ghinelli), Pistoia (Alessandro Tomasi), Massa (Francesco Persiani), Lucca (Mario Pardini), Siena (Nicoletta Fabio), Grosseto (Antonfrancesco) will meet VIvarelli Colonna) and, indeed, Pisa (Michele Conti) for the initiative to launch the Tuscan Civic Network in which they will discuss good administrative practices in a horizontal comparison with the civic lists that fuel the good governance of the centre-right, presenting themselves as the alternative to decades-old system of power of the Democratic Party and its allies in a region that appears less and less red with each passing election. Conti’s idea, his loyalists admit, is to build an authentic synergy between the civic subjects that have allowed the centre-right to shift into high gear and conquer, at the polls, the city governments, even of the capitals which, until a few years ago when only the traditional parties ran, they remained a simple mirage. The objective is to place on the green table of regional politics the cue of a class of administrators who have governed the cities: not a collage of acronyms, but pure civility as the propellant of the parties in the drafting of programs and the ability to bring back to the polls the many who they desert the polls because they are no longer passionate about the skirmishes between right and left because “they are all the same anyway”.
“In recent years – Conti said in April in an interview with La Nazione – we have demonstrated that we have a ruling class that is up to the challenges of the present. We have done this in the field, administering many municipalities including seven out of ten provincial capitals in Tuscany, and demonstrating that the centre-right knows how to attract around itself the best energies of civil society, ready to take the field through civic lists that broaden the field by recognizing good governance and the institutional leadership of the mayors”. But authentic civility, at least in intention, does not want to be a shortcut to get rid of the parties, but rather the added value of the center-right to offer concrete responses to citizens’ needs by choosing the ‘politics of doing’.
Meanwhile, while Giovanni Donzelli, organizational manager of Fratelli d’Italia, reiterates that Alessandro Tomasi “would be the best candidate for the Tuscany Region”, the current president, Eugenio Giani, sends a not too veiled message to the mayor of Pistoia: “When If you play a role, it’s best to play it to the end, I’ve always done it that way.” Giani, then, removes a few pebbles from his shoe: “There is this idea of such a strong right in Pistoia, but at the European elections the Democratic Party took six points more than Fdi. I understand the uncertainties on the part of Mayor Tomasi in running as a candidate but, whoever the candidate is, Tuscany has given a strong signal: good governance and the model of a region governed by progressives, which can be an example throughout Italy, has been confirmed by the voters”.
