The center-right remained out of all three run-offs in the Bologna area. But Forza Italia does not give up and, in order to ‘trip the Democratic Party’, invites its voters not to go to the seaside and rather to vote in favor of the alternative to the Dems. Even if he is always in the center-left camp. And so in Castel Maggiore, for example, the Azzurri are launching their endorsement in favor of the civic list of under 30s ‘Cose Nuove’. Similar reasoning also for Pianoro.
“In the runoffs we need to vote and reward alternation”, in fact support FI secretary and deputy secretary in Bologna, Nicola Stanzani and Morris Battistini, in turn candidate of the centre-right in Marzabotto and defeated in the first round by the outgoing mayor Valentina Cuppi. “We invite our voters – say the blue leaders – the voters of Pianoro, Castel Maggiore and Casalecchio who identify with Forza Italia and the values of the European People’s Party, not to desert the polls for the next round of balloting. If it is true, in fact that as Forza Italia we are not in the running, it is equally true that we feel the urgency of insisting on the importance of everyone voting because, especially in the Bologna area, it is completely evident that the more people are disinterested in politics , the more the policy that is rewarded is a policy that is disinterested in citizens”.
For this reason, Stanzani and Battistini invite “to vote and, where this is possible, as in Pianoro and Castel Maggiore, to look at the value of alternation and the opportunity of an alternative to the far left and to this Democratic Party, which now represents just a system of suffocating power.” Meanwhile, on the eve of the second round and the return of Roberto Vecchioni, who today will be via video link at the end-of-campaign party of the under 30 list that is shaking the Democratic Party, three young Dems, two boys and a girl, active in the centre-left coalition who supports Paolo Gurgone as mayor, wrote to the singer-songwriter to tell him that the appeals with which he urged citizens to vote for Cose Nuove are “founded on wrong assumptions”. This with a premise, the three young dems Andrea Pareschi, Monica Massari and Davide Zarri are ‘fans’ of Vecchioni: “However, we must say, we see some critical points in your support for Cose Nuove”. For example, “the ideas expressed by the young people of Cose Nuove, who in our opinion interpret the Catholic matrix at the basis of the Cose Nuove association in a traditionalist manner, do not leave us calm”.
