“I am really happy to be here this morning. It is a great pride for me to apply for my region: Mia Calabria, my land! You have no idea how much my parents – that today there are no longer – would have been happy today ». He chose the Via del Cuore, Pasquale Tridico, to officially start his election campaign for the presidency of the Calabria Region. He did this in Catanzaro, precisely at the end of the term presentation of the lists, in the presence of the highest representatives capable of the allies and, above all, of Giuseppe Conte, a former premier and political guide of that 5 -star movement of which Tridico is a bearer to the European Parliament. It must be said that the conference room of a well -known hotel in the city center has not struggled to contain the audience present, especially composed insiders and candidates, testifying to how there is first of all the need to make the voters of the important match that will be played at the polls in less than a month. This is precisely the mother of the challenges to which she is called Tridico: to awaken a collective consciousness and the desire to participate.
This is the said and in consideration of the restored times of this electoral campaign suddenly falling on a Midsummer Calabrian night, the test appears titanic. But the former INPS president, often taking refuge in the numbers that for professional deformation are so dear to him, has been said several times on the ability to bring back to the polls a population that in recent years has increasingly deserted regional electoral consultations. On the other hand, lists in hand, contacting the abstention party is the weapon that more than any other can subvert the predictions of an election that for some time has been playing on the votes of the candidates for the regional council rather than on the capacity of the candidate president of drag the crowds.
Thus, from the income of regional dignity to the proposals for the active work policies, from the Task Force for the PNRR to the commitment to the enhancement of culture and the university, Pasquale Tridico has pitted the cornerstones of a government program in which the reformist push and the gaze aimed at social issues are well evident and strong. Large part of its presentation has been dedicated to the health and related issues of the depopulation and decline of the internal areas. And then to public transport and the physical connections of the territory, rejecting the idea of the bridge over the narrow as “non-priority with respect to the real needs of the territory”.
On the election campaign and on his genesis – the sudden resignations of his competitor, Roberto Occhiuto – Tridico then offered a examination: “The former president thought of challenging the opposition and the judiciary finding them unprepared, but found a democratic wall against this crisis unleashed for his judicial problems. The response of the coalition that supports me today was strong, extraordinary, collective of programs, ideas, names and civil society: it was the best response that could be given to a challenge that borders on anti -democratic levels ».
In his brief intervention, then, Conte came the dose: “If a politician – he said referring to Occhiuto – receives a guarantee notice has two possibilities: either he believes he cannot complete the mandate and is aside to be able to defend himself, or he believes to fulfill his mandate until the end asking the travel companions and confidence. What you cannot do is what has been done: resign and ask for the plebiscite of the population is a serious precedent and also an opportunistic initiative “.
