Elections, Nardella: “To bring down the Democratic Party in Florence you need a thousand melons”
“To bring down the Democratic Party in Florence it takes a thousand melons, a thousand Calenda and a thousand Counts”. Here “nobody throws it down why we are strong. Even in the worst of moments, with the more aggressive right, with a more uphill electoral campaign, with the more complex coalition and opponents on the right and left, we win with a gap of 16 points from the center-right “, 42 to 26. the mayor Dario Nardella, during a press conference organized to take stock of the policies. “The Democratic Party went from 12 million votes in 2008, to 8.6 in 2013, to 6 in 2018 and to 5.3 this year. In absolute values it is the worst result ”and“ the fact that Florence reacts in this way, in the face of an unstoppable wind from the right, is a great success ”.
“Florence is a winning model, the administration was rewarded with the vote”
Florence, together with Bologna, recorded “the best electoral result”, he claims. And even if he is not interested in muscle tests (looking respectfully at “the result of other cities without a license as top class”), defining Florence a winning model because “always attentive to the needs of the community, striving to give concrete answers, and with a citizen PD who knows how to stay in the territory. We must never be arrogant and we are not. But here the Democratic Party is strong, solid and the municipal administration has been rewarded ”.
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Nardella, therefore, observes the “very significant figure of Fdi in Florence. The rights have won and to Giorgia Melons I congratulate ”. However, reasoning, “Lega and Fi are at an all-time low”. And he adds: “Compared to 2018, the center-right has dropped while the Democratic Party has held up well”. Of course, even here the Democrats have suffered a decline (and in Tuscany the figure “is negative, it is useless to hide it”). However, he quips, it was a physiological backlash with respect to the national situation and, in the city, “absolutely manageable”.
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