PRATO – Official proclamation ceremony yesterday for Ilaria Bugetti, first female mayor in the history of Prato. Regional councilor of the Democratic Party in office, she won surprisingly in the first round, leading a coalition that includes, in addition to the Democratic Party, also M5s and AVS, defeating the competition of the centre-right candidate, Gianni Cenni (councillor at the time of mayor Roberto Cenni) and distancing him by more than 10 percentage points and nearly 9,000 votes (52% to 41%). “An emotion that is renewed and strengthened” Bugetti, already mayor for 10 years in Cantagallo before landing in the Regional Council, tells Novaradio this morning that she promises to immediately get to work on the most important issues of the administration: knowledge of the municipal machine, the rapprochement of the hamlets, the projects to be completed by the Biffoni council. The council? I have already announced two names (the Prato PD secretary Marco Biagioni and the outgoing deputy mayor Simone Faggi, ed.), the others will arrive in the next few days
It was also important, he underlines, to have broken the glass ceiling for a woman at the Palazzo Comunale: “It is not a coincidence, I believe it is the result of the work we are doing in politics and society. What matters is the example, showing determination and passion to other women.” Bugetti was chosen as a candidate by the Dems after long negotiations between the different souls of the Prato Democratic Party which also raised fears that it could lead to a split or that it would leave dangerous “waste”: “A model? I don’t know, every city has different stories. Here we did a much longer internal reflection, but then the synthesis made us all stronger.”
