Frost. Filippo Franzone and his supporters reiterate that the choice to stay with the mayoral candidate Terenziano Di Stefano does not depend at all on “a barter” for positions, as DC commissioner Giuseppe Licata clearly said. “We have not lost anything, much less have we traded anything, simply, I was invited to the dialogue by both candidates for mayor who will go to the run-off. Both were exposed to the only three points that we brought into the discussion, namely the main themes of the electoral campaign, membership of the Metropolitan City of Catania, health-hospital services and water. Neither of them was asked by the department, they both maintained that to carry out our points our presence was needed within the council – explains Franzone – our credibility is solid because we continue, with coherence, to fight for themes that have characterized our battles for twenty years. We will do it again, possibly, even within the institutions. We have never had ambitions for political office, we could have obtained them before and we have always refused them. We have decided to dialogue with the two candidates in the ballot with the aim of giving representation to the three thousand voters who, through the vote on 8 and 9 June, have given faith in our battles”. Franzone and his group distance themselves from any shadow of mere utility in the pro-Di Stefano choice.
