Frost. An unthinkable disproportion just a few days ago. The ballot gives the city to Terenziano Di Stefano (with over 60 percent and almost 14 thousand votes) and to a coalition that hinges on its “mother” list, the civic one of “Una Buona Idea”, on the Democratic Party and on the Five Star Movement . There has been no shortage of additions, official or otherwise. Di Stefano strengthened his run while evidently the candidate of the broad centre-right-moderate pact Grazia Cosentino was losing support (he finished with 38.9 percent and 8,739 preferences), especially within his own team. The centre-right, weakened by those who left (many of whom returned only superficially), did not hold up. Di Stefano debuts a progressive-civic pact made up of forty-year-olds at Palazzo di Città. He is supported by the deputy vice-president of the Ars Nuccio Di Paola, the exponent of the national leadership of the dem Peppe Di Cristina, the entire dem and grillino bloc, and a civic list such as “Una Buona Idea” which repeated the exploit of five years ago . The project proposal is also supported by autonomist expressions, from the left, from the Calendian group and from “South calls north” (albeit with a very limited margin). Filippo Franzone chose Di Stefano, putting three points on the table, the transition to the metropolitan city of Catania, the battle for water and the strengthening of healthcare. It could have been an even broader pact for the forty-year-olds if an agreement had been reached with Salvatore Scerra, leader of “Alleanza per Gela”, third in the first round and who will now probably try to rebuild after the many defections he suffered.
