“I am running for mayor of Rome”

Published on: 10/18/2020 8:10 PM

“I will apply to be mayor of Rome.” Carlo Calenda, leader of Acción, announces his candidacy for mayor of Rome. “I hope my candidacy has broad support,” says the guest of Che tempo che fa. “Anyone who has the opportunity to lead the city where Western culture was born and bring it back to the great European capitals should do so,” says Calenda. What is the position of the Democratic Party? “I cannot speak on behalf of the Democratic Party. I hope there is broad support, putting this city in order is not a job that one person can do. It is a collective job and it is not just about political forces. I will investigate. All of them. the ways of putting together a coalition of political and social forces ”, he continues.

Why should the Democratic Party support the candidacy? “I should if you think I am the right person to rule Rome. It is the same reason that, fresh out of the Democratic Party, prompted me to support Stefano Bonaccini as governor of Emilia Romagna. This is politics, putting the right people in the right place I left the Democratic Party because I always said ‘never 5 stars’. They changed my mind. This difference at the national level does not divide us when we talk about Rome, we both think that the management of Cinquestelle in Rome has been disastrous. With the Rays everything it got worse, nothing got better. “” There is a health emergency: how do you think of organizing the primaries in which so many people participate, when people are afraid to leave home? The primaries have not always been the panacea. In the last primaries they lost Marino won Gentiloni and Sassoli and then the Democratic Party took him out ”.