“Choice of the territory, at stake to get to the ballot”
VERONA – Forza Italia has announced its support for Flavio Tosi as mayoral candidate for the municipal elections of Verona on 12 June. «The choice to support this candidacy – explained the Venetian coordinator Michele Zuin and the Scaligero one Claudio Melotti – was born from the expression of the provincial coordination that considered in Flavio’s candidacy to be the one that goes in the direction of the best good for its citizens. A decision that was then implemented nationally by President Berlusconi himself “. So in Verona the center-right will run divided, with the outgoing mayor Federico Sboarina supported by the Brothers of Italy, Lega, Courage Italy, Noi con Italia, UDC, Veneta Autonomia and by the civic Verona Domani and Verona at the Center.
THE AGREEMENT
The center-left instead lines up the former footballer Damiano Tommasi. “We play to get to the ballot – said Melotti -, we will ask ourselves the problem of who to support, see and when we don’t get there”. Tosi thanked the Azzurri: «So how much they spent to sign this agreement. This honors me and my charge of responsibility. Union parties often respect national logic, while this union is the will of the territory. The center-right is Forza Italia and Berlusconi is the center-right. Our coalition in Verona is the center-right and the choice of voters in this regard will be clear and simple. On the other hand there are populists from Sboarina and the left from Tommasi, grillini and Bertucco. Furthermore, we have shown that we know how to manage, Sboarina has disappointed and Tommasi is a worthy person but with zero experience and unable to be Mayor ». Then the jab at the Lega: “If Forza Italia was consistent, the same cannot be said of my old party, whose natural landing place for its constituents and its base was in our coalition”.
THE CRACK
However, support for Tosi has opened some cracks in the blue party. The citizen referent Riccardo Caccia has resigned: he has announced to renounce the post and to run for the civic list of Sboarina: “Forza Italia has declared that it cannot be called out of the coalition that has always administered the united city, which supports the governor Luca Zaia , the coalition that represents ideas and values very different from those of the left ».