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Reggio Calabria, who voted for Falcomatà? Friends and relatives linked to the outgoing Administration in the army of candidates on the center-left lists, all names and intertwined in the shadow of the city’s power system
Who votes for Falcomatà? Everyone wonders how it is possible that in Reggio Calabria people have complained for years about the mismanagement of the city and then the outgoing mayor was the most voted among the 9 candidates who ran in the first round. First of all, we must highlight how Falcomatà still achieved a disappointing 37%, equal to 35K votesyour water halve the consensus obtained six years ago, when he was elected mayor with a percentage of 61% equal to more than 58 thousand votes. And even then there were 9 candidates. This time, however, the vast majority of the city, however, spoke out against Falcomatà, in fact, if you add up the votes won by Minicuci, Marched, Pazzano, David, Foti and everyone else, we got to 63%. In view of the voting on Sunday and Monday, it is unknown if all these votes will go to Minicuci, resulting in a clear defeat of Falcomatà, or if other dynamics will take over the psyche of voters.
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In any case, the dispute remains: Who votes for Falcomatà? Faced with the popular sentiment that is breathed daily in the city, made up of complaints about the enormous daily inefficiencies based on essential services, that 37% still seems too much. And maybe it is, because probably if only there were mayoral candidates without the army of lists and candidates and the vote would have been limited to the opinion of the first citizen, the percentages would have been very different. Falcomatàinstead, it was driven by your lists and candidates, what did they get more than 38 thousand votes, equal to 41.47%. An important fact, because it highlights the disjointed vote against the outgoing: more than three thousand center-left voters voted for a candidate on the coalition lists but then elected another candidate for mayor with the operation of separate voting.
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But how did he do it Falcomatà Create a coalition of lists that surpasses 41% of the votes in spite of the bad administrative management of the city? The answer is simple, just scroll through the names of the candidates on the lists and research their identity. Those who obtained the most votes correspond exactly to those involved in the largest number of investigations and scandals in which this administration has been involved in the last six years. In fact, in addition to the outgoing mayor we also have a trial for the Miramare case Giovanni muraca (1,095 votes), Armando Neri (1,079 votes), Giuseppe Marino (1,070 votes), while the other two elected by the Pd Antonino Castorina (1,510 votes) e Rocco albanese (1,108 votes) are investigated in the investigation “Helios” by the Avr scandal, where they also appear Neri me Muraca who see that their voting record coincides with that of the judicial process in which they are charged. All persons sentenced to confiscation under the Severino Law, in the event of a first degree sentence of more than 2 years.
Then there are many functional candidates for the cause. It’s not true that Do friends see each other in times of need? This was the philosophy that based the composition of the Falcomatà lists, an army of “loyalists” united by intertwining of… personal interest! An administration that has never been known for transparency, has now stood in elections with a group of friends and family involved in dating in recent months / years.
There were a few weeks to vote when, in August, Falcomatà nominated Carmelina costarella which Guarantor for people with disabilities. An appointment that the entire social world of Reggio has been eagerly awaiting since time immemorial, and that the mayor after six years decided to institute a few days before the vote. The daughter of Carmelina Costarella, Giuseppina Palmenta, is a candidate on the S’Intesi list, a direct expression of Falcomatà, and obtained 666 preferences. Is it a coincidence? Maybe yes or no.
Why scroll through the candidates on the lists of Falcomatà we found well three employees hired in own company “Castore”: Giuseppe Sera, 1,029 votes on the Pd list, Bruno Tomaselli, 284 votes on the Article One list and Rocco vizzari, 63 votes in the list of the “ISP – Ahead high”.
Is it around here? No way. Valentina raffa, historical mayor’s staff member since 2014, has a brother – Antonio – to whom the family’s political vocation has occurred, as well as to be a candidate on the Reset list, another “civic” directly linked to Falcomatà: and there are 83 votes of preference. Kinship ties are lost, so between Gianluca Neto Dell’Acqua (old friend of Falcomatà and long ago included in the outgoing mayor’s roster) ed Emanuele Neto Dell’Acqua, went out to look for votes in the S’Intesi list (178 preferences collected).
It is part of numerous staff at the mayor’s disposal, in this case to the Metropolitan City, also Mario Cardia, also on the S’Intesi list, of which he was the most voted with 1,286 votes. Giuseppe Cantarella, appointed president of the Commission of Toponymy of the City, he’s so in love with Reggio (and the mayor) to the point of running for the list … “Fall in love with Reggio“And he got another 50 votes.
Fresh from assignment to the Metropolitan City, Fabrizio Costarella at the same time he casually felt the need to go out into the field in the municipal elections of Reggio, precisely with the Reset list, while Laura Bertullo |, appointed president of the Equal Opportunities Commission, ran to the polls with the Article One list (350 votes). On the duty roster there were also Antonino Chirico, husband Annamaria Curatola, awarded the Sangiorgino D’oro on August 11. Which will undoubtedly have been deserved.
Among the candidates on the Democratic Party list we also find Giovanni Palermo: before the election there was obtained by the Housing Emergency Commune of the Municipality the transfer of a social housing.
Nothing illicit or illegal, God forbid: we are in a democracy and everyone is free to run with whoever they want, bye. We are not reporting crimes, it is about legal exchange vote, he political patronage of all time that Falcomatà certainly did not invent but that unfortunately in Italy we have been dragging on decades of bad politics, decades in which comparative prevails over merit.
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But if you still wonder who voted for Falcomatà, and how he managed to get all those votes, perhaps in these names at least part of the answer can be found. Because there will be sure even someone who voted for the outgoing mayor why his opponents did not convince him, someone may also have chosen it because it has appreciated his work as mayor (?!? – even if we objectively believe that these are only a small part and in any case they need psychological therapy) or more likely many others have done it for mere ideological belonging or by personal sympathy. Reasons, the last two, more than valid and also understandable for those who have the intellectual honesty to admit it without fighting for the mirrors. “I vote for Falcomatà because I like him, he has beautiful hair and he can speak well, he may have sucked as an administrator but I like him and that’s it.“OR”I am from the left and I will always vote for the left until the worst of the worst so I don’t care who the candidate is, I vote who is there and amen, don’t bother me with garbage, water, roads and various things, I don’t care I have always voted left and will vote left forever“.
In any case, it also played an important role the huge pool of candidates bound by a system of power widely tested in six long years of management at Palazzo San Giorgio, a system made of help, Favourite, assignments, hiring me perks be reciprocated with the electoral commitment. A system that explains much of what has happened in recent times in the city. From understandable complaints about poor roads, uncollected garbage, lack of water, abandoned public parks, inefficiency of municipal services, and the absence of a strategy to guide the city on a development path, suddenly found love for the outgoing mayor who in any case gave his cousin the job, got his sister hired, gave mom a nomination and dad a job. From the announcements of “turning points” and political paths made of merit and transparency, untilmurky intertwining of comforts and barters with which the salient has administered the city for six long years.
In view of the vote, the city is arguing and wondering about its future. Who to choose, now, between Falcomatà and Minicuci? No one, of course, can guarantee that with another mayor things will really change. But if there is only one certainty, it is that if everything remains as before, nothing will ever change.
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