Frost. Filippo Franzone and his group will support Terenziano Di Stefano and the progressive-civic coalition. The decision came at the end of an internal discussion. Both Di Stefano and the engineer Grazia Cosentino met him. For Franzone and for those who support him, on the three programmatic points placed as an essential condition, Di Stefano himself offers greater guarantees. It will be a resumption of the political relationship, after the experience of the agora. “We have agreed to meet the candidates who will compete in the runoff. We illustrated to both of them the three essential political-programmatic points for the group, as a condition for supporting the run-off, requesting the appropriate guarantees of achieving the objectives. The points are, respect for the outcome of the referendum for joining the metropolitan city of Catania, the provision of health-hospital services already foreseen by the Da of the Sicilian Region, water for the city and the countryside, through dams. The point that was found to be painful was the question regarding the transition to the metropolitan city of Catania which saw citizens voting en masse in the confirmatory referendum called at the time and still remaining unsatisfied. On this topic the answers were different. The mayoral candidate Grazia Cosentino, despite adhering to two of the three points proposed, showed important uncertainties and distinctions on the issue concerning membership of the Metropolitan City of Catania and offered insufficient guarantees for its immediate implementation, included in a timetable set out in one of her unspecified timetable. It guaranteed a department – Franzone and supporters explain in a note – with the delegations relating to the points posed by the group, as long as the transfer to the metropolitan city of Catania was not mentioned, but a generic respect for the expressed popular will”.
