Frost. “We continue to support the mayoral candidate Terenziano Di Stefano. Nothing changes”. The autonomists, compared to initial forecasts, did not confirm their expectations. The five percent threshold was not exceeded and “Autonomist for Gela” stopped at 4.27 percent (with 1,419 votes). “We started discussing with Di Stefano and the allies – explains the outgoing councilor Ugo Costa – unfortunately, we must acknowledge that we have not been able to overcome the barrier threshold. It can happen and it happened to us. We have built a list by putting all the candidates in a position to achieve the objective. We said no to weighty applications. Unfortunately, there wasn’t the feedback we were expecting.” The Lombardians could have been one of the strong backs of the coalition but the electoral results said otherwise. “Agreements? Di Stefano will decide – continues Costa – the ballot is based on the two candidates. I think there are conditions for agreements with other forces but the will must be mutual. We are discussing together with the mayoral candidate and allies. The decision must be made together, in a compact manner.” The autonomists will probably carry out an internal examination of the electoral outcome.
