Genoa. The result of the European elections “is the testimony that the center-right is no longer the majority in Liguria, having gone from 54% in the regional ones to 44% today. It is a fact that should make them think and take note you cannot politically seize a regionwe must go to the dissolution of the council and call new elections“. The regional secretary Davide Natale rides the success of the Democratic Party, which it also attributes to the “great work” of Elly Schlein, and returns to the attack against the Toti junta on the very day in which the request for the revocation of house arrest is presented which, if accepted, could rehabilitate the president.
“There are problems that require having a council, whatever it may be, capable of tackling the problems that exist in a clear and clear manner – he underlines Christmas -. It must be clarified whether we want to deal with the problems of Ligurian citizens and businesses or whether we instead wait for the judicial storm to pass. But here there is a political problem, not a judicial one.” The future of the regional council, today led by Alessandro Piana ad interimit will perhaps be decided in the next few weeks, when Toti will meet the leaders of the centre-right, those who currently have the ball in their hands. “I find scandalous that a region is dependent on the decisions of a fewbut I’m not surprised because the center-right has never loved this region and continues to prove it.”
In any case, once any municipal runoffs have passed, the center-left will begin to organize itself to build an alliance and create a candidacy for the next regional elections. The geometry of the “field” will have its importance: keeping both inside M5s is Actiontoday progressives would be the relative majority. “Very wide field? I have always spoken of a field of common sense – explains Natale – reasoning with all those who are disappointed by the policies of the centre-right: 150 thousand Ligurians who give up treatment, the lowest incomes in the North West, the lowest GDP in the North West are issues on which to discuss in order to build not only an alliance party that expands beyond the regional council, but also with the world of work, businesses, associations that want to build a different society”.
Can the growth of the Democratic Party and the decline of the M5s accentuate the balance of power within the coalition? “Absolutely not – the secretary replies convincingly -. I follow what Elly Schlein says: we must be stubbornly unitary, which means asserting our own ideas but in a climate of unity. There is a need to build a different project for Liguria, it is an important effort to make but it is the only one that can give concrete results, otherwise we will lose this great opportunity and it will be harmful not for the political forces but for the Ligurians who see undermined their rights.”
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