The “Qui Marcello”, the trademark catchphrase of this start of the electoral campaign, this time is pronounced in unison by the Marcello in question, Scurria of course, and by his political “big sponsor”, the Undersecretary for Relations with Parliament Matilde Siracusano. The latter, in fact, accompanied Scurria during his Roman tour between various ministerial offices, for meetings whose outcomes are currently top secret, but which will most likely be the subject of a press conference by the end of this week. «We have made several ministers understand and we want to make Messina and the people of Messina understand what the ambition of creating dialogue with regional and national institutions to resolve problems means. Because here in Rome we can really solve many of the city’s problems.”
Scurria raises this by talking about the «Messina-Rome axis. For too long Messina and the municipal administration have been isolated from the rest of the institutions, we must bring the city out of isolation, bringing Messina’s problems to the ministers’ desks.”
However, the case raised on social media by the centre-left mayoral candidate, Antonella Russo, is curious: «I have to report myself – she reveals –. I received a phone call from Rome and I answered. It was a survey by the SWG company, I was asked as a citizen what I thought about some parameters relating to this electoral competition. He asked me if I preferred any of the mayoral candidates and I, self-denounced, replied “I prefer Antonella Russo” Also because I thought it was a joke… But other things weirded me out. Meanwhile, the questions were almost all focused on Federico Basile, whether I liked him, whether I wanted to change something in his program, whether I was disappointed in some way by how he had administered, as if the other candidates were accessories. But the strangest thing was another question: they asked me if I thought that Cateno De Luca should take a step back from Federico Basile’s electoral campaign. I candidly answered what I think, that is, yes. Then I thought: what’s Cateno De Luca got right in this survey? And I ask myself: but who commissioned this survey?”.
