“+EUROPA participated in these local elections with a clear choice of side: within the coalition progressive alongside Antonio Gengaro.
A thoughtful choice, wanted because we are progressives and because Antonio Gengaro responded with conviction to the appeal we had launched, while the other forces of the center-left were still struggling in the chaos of the nominations of potential candidates for mayor. A simple appeal: put the program and its themes at the center.
We did it. We presented a clear, feasible program that proposed to do what every serious electoral program should always do: analyze the city’s problems, and offer solutions doable. We said from the beginning that we would support those who, in turn, would choose to support our vision of Avellino: liberal, attentive to the needs of its citizens and ready to give new impetus to the economy and innovation; a European and pro-European Avellino. Anthony Gengaro he made this vision his own, and we supported him, without any buts.
Therefore, first of all it is our duty to thank our candidate for mayor, for all the effort made in these two months, for not sparing himself, physically and morally.
Thanks to our coalition comrades in Avellino Participatory Project, with whom we shared a political method and a common vision for the city.
This effort has not been rewarded with a victory, and this must be acknowledged. To the new City Council, to the new Executive Board and, of course, to the new Mayor, we extend our sincere wishes for good work.
They need it, because the problems of Avellino that we have identified in recent months, they’re obviously all still here.
The young people of Avellino still need answers: to their demand for old and new spaces for study, free research and socialization; to their demand for a quality of life (and air) worthy of a European provincial capital; to their demand for well-paid, dignified jobs that are attentive to their needs and qualifications; to their question of wanting to stay in Avellino, of not having to abandon it.
The families of Avellino need answers: to their demand for services, both scholastic and health-related; to their demand for functioning and accessible public transport; no longer having to ask if their children, once again, will be forced to grow up elsewhere, instead of in their city.
The entrepreneurs and workers of Avellino and the rest of the province need answers: to their question whether or not Avellino intends to resume its role as a true capital, a coordinating center for the productive activities of a province that desperately needs genuine entrepreneurship and job protection; to their demand for technological, scientific, and even managerial innovation that increases the quality of work and opens up new jobs; to their question whether politics to Avellino does he really want to be the protagonist of an industrial strategy or if intends to allow industrial disasters such as that of the Italian Bus Industry in Flumeri, which a government, which we do not hesitate to define as wicked, wants to destroy for reasons that are still incomprehensible to us.
To all these and other questions, +EUROPA immediately wanted to offer answers, based on our principles and values: Europeanism, work, innovation, scientific environmentalism, intergenerational equity.
The election campaign is over, but the questions remain. Our proposals remain too.
For this, we at More Europe Avellino we intend to continue putting politics at the center, overcoming polarization and placements, so that the city of Avellino has the answers to which needs. For this reason we launch a new appeal, this time addressed to all citizens of Avellino who share our vision: let’s work together to ensure that a liberal, pro-European Avellino, that stimulates innovation and research, that protects its environment with rationality, and that gives its citizens everything they need, finally becomes reality.
