The movement of the horse. The checkmate that, if successful, will divert the attention of the media and citizens to Italia Viva for weeks. Relegating the Democratic Party to the fifth, sixth page. Matteo Renzi and his most faithful Stefania Saccardi launched an attractive proposal to Cecilia Del Re, a councilor who was first removed by Dario Nardella and then placed in a dark and sad corner by the Democrats. The Florentine assembly said no to the primaries (rejecting, in fact, itself) and subsequently bet everything on Sara Funaro as a candidate for mayor in Florence. “Cecilia, we are going to do the primaries ourselves – said the current vice-president of the Tuscany Region in an interview with the newspaper La Nazione -. I would like Del Re’s call for the primaries to be held anyway to be accepted. To her, who is a friend, I say: let’s take the 2009 regulations and make people vote. Let us create a reformist alternative that breaks this chain. We recover the values and programs that led to change in Florence. We gave a sign of hope to this city. I’m ready to run, but if we have the primaries and I lose, I’ll give Cecilia a hand.”
Saccardi points the finger at the Democratic Party. And he doesn’t give discounts. “Public money does not go to the stadium, but to hospitals, public housing, schools. Fines are imposed for safety, not to make money. You don’t leave girls in hotels occupied by hundreds of criminals for months.” The reference, not very veiled, is to the old Astor hotel, the one where little Kata lived, the Peruvian woman who disappeared on June 10th and was never found again. . An attack aimed at Sara Funaro, immigration councilor and her mentor, the current mayor Dario Nardella. “They think they can manage Florence as if it were a Bulgarian province, but they don’t realize they run the risk of losing. By canceling the primaries they have betrayed the history of the Democratic Party, but by canceling the airport they betrayed the future of Florence. This Democratic Party has lost its soul. Let us do what the Democratic Party has always done and what this timid Florentine ruling class is afraid to do.”
Cecilia Del Re didn’t want to go too far for now. Reached by phone, she said she did not want to comment. At the time. According to our sources, however, the former urban planning councilor is evaluating the various political options on the table. And, in the next few days, he will communicate his decision. You don’t need to be a genius in political analysis to understand that, in the Tuscan capital, a vote will certainly be necessary to establish Nardella’s heir. Against the backdrop of this exclusively female challenge, Eike Schmidt remains concealed and immobile, and will formalize (barring unforeseen and, at this moment, unpredictable shocks) her candidacy with the center-right in the week following January 7th. A dispute, that of Palazzo Vecchio, that seems (finally) open.
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
