«In Calabria one in two citizens live in a situation of poverty, double the European average. Politics cannot be turned to the other side. First of all, we will focus on health. We will win an income of dignity and make it work because we will connect it to a real reform of active policies. To finance it we will use European funds, there is also a recommendation by the EU Commission that warms it up ».
This was stated by the MEP of the M5s Pasquale Tridico, former president of INPS and candidate president of Calabria designated by the center -left, in an interview with Corriere della Sera. On the distance of the action leader Carlo Calenda, interviewed by La Repubblica Tridico says: «I can only say that my candidacy was requested by many citizens. Also by the regional councilors of action in Calabria. I met them in Scala Coeli in the province of Cosenza and they asked me for the willingness to take the field. Indeed, to want to be precise, in Pietrapaola, a few km from my municipality ».
Interviewed by the daily fact, the MEP of the M5S underlines: “In Calabria there is too much poverty, too much malaise, too much resignation. I go out of the house and people everywhere asks me to run. I would have felt like a traitor if I hadn’t answered this appeal ». Now, Tridico says by motivating the decision to run in another election after being to the European Parliament, “we must build a region of Europe. Compared to last year there are new facts, such as the Papeete di Occhiuto “.