“In the run-off elections for Caltanissetta, the M5S made no alliances with any political force. Cinquestelle voters on Sunday and Monday will be free to vote according to their conscience.” This was stated by the regional coordinator for Sicily of the M5S Nuccio Di Paola in view of the ballot on 23 and 24 June.
“In the phase preceding the first round – says Di Paola – the Democratic Party did not heed our repeated invitations to support Roberto Gambino, clearly making a mistake in its calculations, as demonstrated by the fact that Gambino collected 28% of the votes, obtaining 11% more than the lists that supported him. I wish the citizens of Nisse a good vote.”
Ballot in Caltanissetta, Tesauro and Petitto compete
In the capital of Nisseno the two challengers, Walter Tesauro (34.42%) and Annalisa Petitto (30.82%), from the centre-right and centre-left respectively, delivered the lists with the teams of councillors.
No connection for Tesauro, despite the meetings in recent days with the outgoing mayor of the M5S, Roberto Gambino, who received almost 28% of the votes in the first round. Tesauro’s team is the one presented in the first round: Calogero Adornetto (Fi), Guido Del Popolo on the mayor’s list, Gianluca Bruzzaniti and Toti Petrantoni for FdI, Giovanna Candura vice mayor, Oscar Aiello Lega, Angelo Fasulo from Gela and Saverio Romano at altitude Noi Moderati, Gero Valenza of Mussomeli, at altitude Dc.
New entries instead for Annalisa Petitto. Among the designated councilors were Angelo Failla, who in the first round was among the mayoral candidates, Paola Sanfilippo and Giancarlo Larocca, from the “Future and Democratic Caltanissetta” list, and Salvatore Alù, candidate from the “Nisseno Pride” list. Confirmed are the deputy mayor Salvatore Licata and the councilors Alberto Calafato, Leyla Montagnino, Vincenzo Cancelleri and Carmelo Milazzo. Meanwhile, unlike what happened in Gela, in Caltanissetta there was no marriage between the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party.
Gela’s challenge
There is also a lot of excitement in Gela where, in this case too, the exponents of the two opposing poles will compete: Grazia Cosentino (32.87%) of the centre-right, and Terenziano Di Stefano (29.26%), of the centre-left. The two candidates have reshaped their respective councils.
The new entries in Grazia Cosentino’s coalition are the Forzista Nadia Gnoffo, the Christian Democrat Vincenzo Cascino and Daniele Scicolone. Confirmation arrives for Vincenzo Casciana (Fratelli d’Italia), the Renzian Nadia Di Francesco, the Melonian Carolina Varchi and the Northern League member Rosaria Duchetta. Terenziano Di Stefano inserts Viviana Altamore and Filippo Franzone. Changing of the guard for the autonomists: Valeria Caci takes over from Rosario Caci. Confirmed are the five-star member Simone Morgana, the dem Giuseppe Arancio, Giuseppe Favitta, an expression of the Communist Party and Luigi Di Dio for Melfa in Action. Di Stefano, therefore, also retained the councilors, reference of the lists that did not pass the threshold. As regards the alliances, to date an agreement has only been found between Filippo Franzone, who ran for mayor and received 7% of the votes, and Terenziano Di Stefano. There is anticipation for the decision of the former Forzista Totò Scerra, who, thanks to his 23.45% of the preferences obtained in the first round, is contested by the right and the left.
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