A trumpet blast is heard on the right, a blast responds on the left… this is how Alessandro Manzoni described the incipit of the battle of Maclodius two centuries ago in the Count of Carmagnola. Soldiers and knights ready to challenge each other in a violent and fratricidal clash. And so it will be today in Reggio, where the electoral battle has attracted the big shots of national politics. For the centre-right, in fact, the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini and the president of the UDC Lorenzo Cesa are arriving in the city, both will present the candidates of their lists and will make their trumpets heard in support of the candidate for mayor Francesco Cannizzaro. For the centre-left, however, Nicola Fratoianni, national secretary of the Italian Left, will arrive, who will sound his trumpet blast in favor of the mayoral candidate Mimmo Battaglia.
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