Municipal Genoa: the support of Italia Viva for Bucci in the name of “leftist choices”
It has been official for a few days: Italia Viva will support the outgoing mayor Marco Bucci in the race towards Palazzo Tursi on 12 June next. This is the first electoral pact between Renzi’s party and the center-right in a regional capital. Bucci had already winked at IV: “I hope Italia Viva comes with us”, he said during the inauguration of the electoral campaign.
“We cannot stay with the inaction of the center-left allied to M5S and the maximalist left”, declared Raffaella Paita, deputy from La Spezia, Renzian lieutenant in Liguria, who sealed the agreement, so “a farispendi” (since it provides for the support without the party symbol on the ballot paper).
“Our symbol cannot appear alongside those of the Brothers of Italy and the Lega, we are not compatible with sovereignty and populism”, he continued, explaining that the Renzian candidates will instead enter the strongest of Bucci’s civic lists.
“Italia Viva avoids presenting itself with its symbol for math questions linked to the scarcity of candidates, as the low percentages recorded by running alone have been slow to release the piquant response of the Carroccio. “We regret that Paita does not appreciate the Lega and F symbols because they will be the ones on which the majority builds and will increasingly build their solid foundations. And since it will probably be the majority of which part, the representatives of Italia Viva will do well to change the terms. In the sense of respect and direction “.
The League, for its part, declining week after week in the pre-electoral polls, has instead focused on the “Bucci brand” in the symbol that will be on the card, rather than using that of Matteo Salvini, as usually happens. Officially, however, according to the words of the secretary, the name of the outgoing Mayor is a tribute to the city, which has gone through difficult years, from the fall of the Morandi bridge to the pandemic.
Paita praised “the operations of the mayor and popular operations, of a true left, which does deeds and not words”. Precisely these days, however, four years ago, the same expresses a harsh condemnation of the homage to the fallen of Salò made by a councilor in the tricolor band delegated by the mayor himself in May 2018. On that occasion Paita (at the time exponent of the Democratic Party ) thundered against Bucci, openly inviting him to “overcome his ambiguities and those of those who support him: that tricolor band is a wound that cannot be healed”, he wrote.
Not really ahead of brought to the clones if even those social policies from the current council, such as who go out in multechard or who rummage in the bins, as well as the suppression of the municipality of residence for the homeless or the municipality to recognize the patronage to gay pride, already defined as “offensive and divisive” by Bucci, or to the opposition in court to the registration of the children of homosexual couples.
Paita herself has chosen that the choice “came after a frank, sometimes bitter, confrontation at the local level”. “I hope that our compact community” has closed, however the situation does not seem to be such, with some representatives of IV in the Municipality and in some Municipalities that remain who will desert the election campaign for Bucci and others who could enter the candidate’s civic list center-left and 5 Stars, Dello Strologo. Massimiliano Morettini, an entrepreneur enrolled in Italia Viva and former councilor in the center-left council Marta Vincenzi declared: “Even electoral choices, even administrative ones, always have a political value, whether the voters want it or not. And so I’m with Ariel Dello Strologo not because I don’t want the others, but because I choose him. Convinced “. In the city council is split in two: the councilor Mariajosè Bruccoleri, had left the council group already last fall because of the constant winks to the majority.
In fact, in November the Mayor of Genoa was invited by the leader of Italia Viva to the Leopolda, receiving applause from the audience and certificates of esteem from Renzi, who presented him as a “good and capable mayor who showed his qualities to all Italy in the management of the tragedy of the Morandi collapse “.
Matteo Renzi, when he said goodbye to Bucci, declared that Italia Viva in Genoa, come to other cities, would be committed to supporting green infrastructures and always been on the side of the mayors “who are for doing and not postponing”.
These statements by the leader of Italia Viva were read as a signal of arrival of his party to the deployment in support of Marco Bucci.
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