Bologna, 27 June 2024 – Everybody want new things e ‘New things’. The novelty is pushing the political imagination like five years ago, when the Sardine explosion was perhaps complicit in the Bonaccini’s victory against a rampant League.
Luca Vignoli with the civic list ‘Cose Nuove’ which also bewitched Vecchioni won in Castel Maggiore
Today that space is being taken over the civic list of Castel Maggiore (association founded almost 30 years ago also by Luca Prodi, Romano’s nephew), made up of under 30s and rooted in the Catholic world (“But within us there is everything, even those who are not baptized”), which took over the municipality in the province of Bologna by electing 27-year-old Luca Vignoli as mayor.
With the blessing of the Milanese singer-songwriter Roberto Vecchioni, who openly supported them. A few days after the exploit, both the center-left and, it seems, the center-right are trying to bring them closer from a regional perspective.
For that civility that could serve to change the tide, one way or another. Vecchioni said it again a few days ago: “I literally fell in love of these kids”. While Vignoli chooses to keep premature flirting attempts at bay. “If ‘Cose Nuove’ exists and fascinates, it’s because we don’t do all this out of political ambition: young people aren’t interested in these conversations – states the new mayor when asked of a possible entry into the field of the list at the upcoming Regionals -. No one can pull us by the jacket, any discussion is absolutely premature and in contrast with who we are. We have always remained autonomous and the theme is precisely this, we look at the world upside down starting from our values.”
In that poster we can recognize ourselves. “We definitely have the preliminary ruling of anti-fascism, we have always dialogued with those who have our values. Then if in the future there were to be ‘Cose Nuove Emilia-Romagna’ it could be a good thing. The word – continues Vignoli – is not denied to anyone. They accused us of being closed, but we are the opposite. However, we are against electoral operations.” So no veto on the centre-right? “I repeat, we are a civic body and we talk to everyone – he concludes –. There’s a lot of noise about what right and left are, but the titles need to be filled with content.”
