«No step back, I remain a candidate for president. I don’t let myself be slow cooked. I am the only candidate who can make the center-left win. Of course, if someone with the profile of Nino Di Matteo is a candidate, we can discuss, but the names that have come out so far are very respectable, but only good for someone like Giorgio Mulè to win.”
The leader of Controcorrente said this, Ismaele La Vardera, presenting his group to the Ars with the former M5s Carlo Gilistro and Jose Marano, designated group leader, and Alessandro De Leo, former Misto, elected with the centre-right. «It is not true that we were absent from the Campo largo summit, our coordinators were there, but at that meeting – he added – the main question was not discussed: which candidate for president? The feeling is that they want to waste time, that they want to put obstacles in the way of someone like me who is considered neither controllable nor manageable… I don’t want to be controlled or managed, I’m ready together with the allies, within that wide field, to fight the same battle to change Sicily, but I won’t let myself be torn apart.” Hence the proposal: «Let’s convene, let’s meet for three days and come out with a united proposal on the presidency». A «pop summit», the former Hyena calls it, and «not sad, in a sad context, like the one that took place. I don’t want to be considered an adversary, we are on the same fence, but if they want to keep me out, I will move on.” And the primaries? «I’m not afraid of it. If they opened up, I would win them hands down, but as Caterina Chinnici’s story has shown, they are of no use, they don’t help, they don’t let us win.”