Municipal elections: in the municipality of Reggio Calabria there will be a vote between the outgoing Falcomatà and Minicuci: but the moral winner was Angela Marcianò

Municipal elections: in the municipality of Reggio Calabria there will be a second round between the outgoing Falcomatà and Minicuci: but the moral winner was Angela Marcianò, she had suffered attacks, calumnies and vulgarities, because every day she was more afraid

Until the opening of the polls, Angela Marcianò had suffered attacks, slander and vulgarities, because every day it became more scary. But it took a few hours to make her the main protagonist of the second round of the Municipal de Reggio along with the two contestants in Ballottaggio Falcomatà and Minicuci. A protagonist who is both praised and voluminous. A stone guest from the second round.
Some polls, the growing popularity, the closing rally in a busy Piazza Duomo and the exit poll on Monday night 21 had testified that despite not having a battleship of rosters or the support of powerful national parties o large pressure groups, had broken all the balances and broke all sides, gathering free and independent consensus from all directions. Until now it had never happened that Reggio came to the Ballottaggio in the Municipalities. Now everyone is talking about their great success with the split vote, even more significant when we consider the distance between the percentage of their lists and their percentage of 14%. An aspect that stands out even more given the differences in several percentage points between the first two candidates and their respective coalitions. Now everyone is talking about appearances, negotiations on “vote packages” and refers to you, repeating an offensive attitude towards voters who have expressed their consent to Angela Marcianò. They are people of all orientations, but free and independent and they intend to be treated as subjects and not as objects that the candidate carries in her pocket and uses as she wishes to exchange votes. I am sure that from this election a civic movement has begun that can open a new stage for the defense of the priority interests of Reggio and the Metropolitan City, crushed for too long by a transversal majority that has dominated the Region for 50 years. with any coalition. And finally I am sure that Angela’s response to these courtships will be the wisest and most consistent with her electoral strategy.

Pasquale Amato

Historian and university professor