The new city councilors, Adam Atik (175 personal preferences) and Arianna Poli (287 personal preferences), will have to “act as interpreters of every request coming from below, continuously listening to the citizens. This is truly an unexpected result, far beyond our expectations.” This is the angle of vision from which the considerations of the Civic Coalition start, among the lists in support of the centre-left mayoral candidate, Fabio Anselmo. “We thank Anselmo – they begin -. We lost, of course, and the reasons will need to be investigated in depth, but what we have built together with all those who supported us, helping us to imagine an alternative for this city, must not be wasted”. The civic body says it is “available to this perspective (the alternative to the government of the city, ed.), which alludes to the construction of an opposition that listens and proposes in the council offices, but above all in the city. Yes, because it is the city in its materiality, consisting of bodies, lives and spaces, that interests us more than anything else”.
“We will honor this trust on a daily basis – they point out – obviously by dialogue with all the opposition forces, but above all by re-inhabiting those places of our reality that unfortunately this dispute has neglected. We will start from here, from the practice of participation, inclusion and involvement, not because we lack the proposals that we have widely shared so far, but because we believe that proximity, empathy and the ability to put ourselves in the other’s shoes are essential tensions of a fair political practice, we would like to convene an open assembly with the hope of offering a welcoming discussion space that is foreign to rigid logics of belonging”. “Anyone who is suffering from this temporary defeat and wants to transform this disappointment into productive imagination” will be invited to this event. “The path that began with The City that We Want – they conclude – therefore also continues by asking us to consider our presence in the City Council as a tool available to everyone and which therefore, like the future of our Ferrara, is also in everyone’s hands the citizens”.
