Florence, 26 June 2024 – “The phase of vetoes and slaps against the Democratic Party, especially from friends, is over”. The day after the ballots in Tuscany, Emiliano I was, regional dem secretary, sums up this electoral round and, above all, looks to the future – to next year’s regional elections – with confidence and optimism. And he even removes a few pebbles from his shoe. “Scrap Renzi? No, we don’t scrap, we include. But we need the willingness to be included” says Fossi. And then, looking at his party, he has no doubts. “The Democratic Party is healthy, it is strong in Tuscany” says the secretary who, therefore, raises the bar by thinking about future alliances, a broad progressive field but with a sort of ‘commandment’ which places, precisely, after the clear victory, second round, by Sara Funaro in Florence and successes in Prato, with Ilaria Bugetti, and Livorno, with the reconfirmation of Luca Salvetti in the first round, in what is the ‘red heart’ of Tuscany’.
«Without the Democratic Party it is not possible to build the government alternative in the country” and it is not possible to win in Tuscany. Translated: “We are generous, but not cheaters” he reflects with a joke always on the edge of the vetoes and opening up “to the construction phase” For this reason “in the next few days we will launch an idea: the common construction of a centre-left laboratory to which we will invite all the forces of that camp. From there we will build the democratic Tuscany of the future in which we ask those who are available to recognize themselves starting from choices, concrete contents and proposals” continues the secretary reiterating that “today is no longer the phase of equidistance, of balancing acts”.
In this sense “from now to the next few months it will be increasingly important and necessary to make a field deployment. And by launching the laboratory for democratic Tuscany we want to do this” explains the parliamentarian. If the opening of the laboratory is a matter of weeks, there is still time on the names for the regional elections and, in any case, first the proposals and contents, then the alliances.
“Today we enjoy the results” gondola Fossi who says about the future governor of Tuscany: “At the moment, as secretariat, we have only talked about the local elections, today (yesterday, ed.) they closed. We are happy with the result and for us Eugenio Giani is and continues to be the president of the Tuscany Region”. Fossi adds that “to date, reorganization of the regional council or the repositioning of councilors are not on the agenda”. Stefania Saccardi, vice-president of the Region in quota IV who in Florence presented herself as a mayoral candidate for Italia Viva, “President Giani had underlined the need to take sides in the run-off for Funaro, and he did so. As far as we are concerned – continues Fossi – it was the minimum wage required of an authoritative exponent of a party that sits in the regional majority led by the Democratic Party”. And still on the success of Funaro, Fossi chases away the gossips. “All the prophets of doom have been proven wrong, those who said that the Democratic Party and the center-left had run their course and that the Nardella administration had done things badly” the words of the secretary reiterating that the Democratic Party is “by far the first party in Florence” and “in Tuscany with 32%, according to European data”.
Looking at the rest of the Region, “we lose Ponsacco on the right but we conquer Montecatini Terme, while in the other municipalities where we lose we do so with respect to a centre-left civic spirit, as in the case of Colle Val d’Elsa or due to a fratricidal struggle, a war in the centre-left family. If we have learned anything from this electoral transition, it is that we win if we present ourselves united” concludes Fossi.
