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Reggio Calabria, the announced disaster of the center-right of Salvini: Minicuci lost the elections and the ballot in a city that has lived for years submerged by waste, without water in the houses and with damaged roads. Analysis and history of a “masterpiece”, on the contrary
Reggio is not a League. Like Emilia Romagna, like Tuscany: where he puts his hand SalviniFor the center right, defeat is assured. With the difference that in Emilia Romagna and Tuscany the outgoing administrations of the Democratic Party had not governed badly, and that the League has an important roots in those territories for years. In Reggio Calabria, on the other hand, we were coming from the administrative disaster of Falcomatà and the center-right had the path of victory, if only the candidate had been the natural expression of the political forces of the city. In fact, the outgoing mayor’s consensus has collapsed from 61% in 2014 to 37% today, dai 58,171 votes six years ago ai 35,109 of the first shift from a fortnight ago. A unprecedented collapse in the political history of the city. However, despite having had the vote of only one in three of those who went to vote, and only one in five of those who had the right to vote, Falcomatà continues to be mayor not on his own merits but because of the errors of a center-right in disorder. That nobody would win this ballot, we had already written it. It was necessary to understand who would lose it. IS Minicuci he lost it for publishing. A blow to the face.
Salvini I would have liked to do an experiment “Let’s see what I can do in a big southern city“. Meloni me Berlusconi they granted it, despite the resistance of the local party representatives, who in any case, except for a few rare (or very rare, see Cannizzaro) exception: they had been too submissive to the Roman leaders. However, these elections, since the world began, are taken in Rome. Forever.
And also for the Region, 10 months ago, after the territory had naturally given birth to the candidacy of Eyes that already had the lists, programs and the support of a large group of sympathizers, the veto of Salvini and the choice fell on Jole santelli. Party logic. In Reggio, in the same way, even if the local center had chosen and launched a long-standing candidate, in August it would have arrived Salvini to catapult Minicuci from above. It had to be avoided in every way. It was necessary to explain to the leader of the League and the coalition (sigh!) What would be found. Only Cannizzaro he tried, until the last moment, to get to touch a sensational break. But he was alone and had to adapt. So the candidate chose him Salvini, already improper in himself, and above all he chose the worst possible. He imposed it on Reggio from above, like a foreign body. And so Minicuci gave us his: denied interviews, empty comparisons, save for two in which we understood why. It would have been better if he had stayed home that day too.
31,000 voted for him, both in the first round and at the polls. In fact, in the second round he obtained 400 fewer votes than in the first round. They were not vows for him, but a a desperate attempt to change Falcomatà’s bad policy. An unsuccessful attempt, because the League label that the same Salvini gave (and wanted to give) to Minicuci awake the pride of the left, the pride of antifascism and the southerner. They were ashamed of Falcomatà for what he did in 6 years in the city, but against the Lega they found hope and motivation. Why good or bad Salvini he is seen as a fascist (which he certainly is not), and as a racist Northerner against the South (as he has already amply demonstrated in his history of political militancy in the League). And then the administrative disaster of Falcomatà has gone to the background: better one that proved incapable than a fascist Lega Nord wanted by Salvini. Even for many voters moderate, liberals me conservativesbetter a mayor who knows how to speak Italian and who knows how to dress, although clearly unsuitable for the role, compared to one who has problems even with diction and you touch your balls on live tv.
“I have the idea that the next mayor of Reggio Calabria will have to be from Reggio“He declared Salvini at a press conference in Reggio last summer, almost mocking the audience as if someone doubted the possibility that the candidate was not from Reggio Calabria. And then he himself chose a melitoto who had emigrated to the North for decades, completely disconnected from the dynamics of the city.
Photo StrettoWeb / Salvatore Dato
Maybe he too would have been a good mayor Antonino Minicuci, who knows. We will never know. But he certainly wasn’t a good candidate, and that’s for sure. To become good mayors, you must first be elected. And therefore, first and foremost, we must be winning candidates in the eyes of the people. That Minicuci It wasn’t, it was clear from the start. In fact, many of the historic center-right voters had preferred in the first round Angela Marcianò, giving him preference in the hope that he might make it to the ballot. Where, no doubt, would have torn Falcomatà.
Ma a Falcomatà any other valid and presentable figure that the center-right had deployed against the ledges would have torn it apart: it had vetoed many of the same Salvini, others – emblematic the interview with prof. Ferrara at StrettoWeb – had retired only to not have the League tag on. What in Reggio Calabria has failed: only the 4%, linked exclusively to the candidates (Reggio doc) on the list. And a resounding failure for the candidate of Salvini. That he had made a bet and lost it, on the skin of the city. Never again a candidate from the Northern League in the South, if he “Capitone“He will have learned his lesson. But especially if they have understood Meloni me Berlusconi, accomplices of the Salvinian disaster on the shores of the Strait. They didn’t even come to Reggio for the election campaign. Salvini because their mere presence would have hurt, and this in itself was cause for deep reflection. Even louder is the total absence of Giorgia Meloni, who wants to be a leader of the right in Italy and has completely ignored a city that has always been a point of reference for the right in the country. A city in which Falcomatà He had served the victory on a silver platter with six years of bad government, instead these great heroes of the center have missed 20 penalty shots with an empty goal. Of course Roby Baggio me Baresi.
In the end, everyone is a little happy like this.
Because nobody voted Minicuci with enthusiasm and conviction. It was only one vote (the only one possible, on the ballot) in protest against the bad policy of Falcomatà.
And nobody voted Falcomatà with enthusiasm and conviction. It was only one vote (the only one possible, on the ballot) of protest against the League of Salvini and the own unthinkable candidate from the north. A “unknown“As he wanted to define himself, in a certain way particularly clever, presenting himself to the city on the first day of his electoral campaign.
Falcomatà is aware that he did not win on his own merits, so much so that his first words to the crowd of fans who gathered outside his secretariat to celebrate (blocking a street from the center of traffic and disregarding anti-Covid regulations, caused a great reunion), instead of being held, once again attacked the League: “Salvini stays at your house, someone wanted to put flags in our city, we don’t allow it“However, I should have thanked Salvini, Falcomatà. Because if he is still mayor it is all thanks to the leader of the Northern League who transformed the first citizen responsible for the disaster in the city in the last 6 years, the savior from Reggio to the Lombard invaders. From an emblem of the failure of a political class to a hero of the city. The center-right needed a miracle to lose this party. They went further: they lost and simultaneously rehabilitated a political opponent who two months ago had already committed suicide due to manifest disability.
Nothing changes in the city, emergencies remain e the usual faces remain. There is the same Mayor who will appoint a “new“Giunta. But if the government team is built according to the preferences obtained in the elections, it will be almost a photocopy of the previous ones with the new entry of Castorina (Will it be the deputy?) And the confirmations of the different Neri, Muraca and company. Awaiting the sentence of the Miramare trial that in all probability, given the sentence already inflicted on Angela Marcianò in the shortcut, it will activate the Severino Law and the automatic loss of the Mayor and a large part of his Administration. With the immediate arrival of the commissioners. And then in Reggio it will be even darker. Not that the sun is shining today.
The truth is that down here, under the blows of bad politics from both sides, the the vast majority of people have now also given up hope that things can actually change.
Reggio Calabria, Falcomatà wins the ballot with Minicuci and remains mayor: here is the new city hall, there are 4 women [NOMI e FOTO]
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