The project and the primaries. Fabio Guerriero, representative of Progetto Civico Italia, bursts into the political-electoral perimeter of the local centre-left (although without ever naming him directly). Guerriero, trade unionist and former member of the Democratic Party, offers a reflection in which he claims the importance of ideas and a project and the need for a collegial choice on the name of the candidate for mayor. A proposal that Guerriero himself had already put forward in 2021, as a member of the Democratic Party; while in 2022, at odds with the Democratic Party and as coordinator of the Reformisti Avanti list, he supported Valerio Donato’s candidacy for mayor against Nicola Fiorita himself, the latter supported by the Democratic Party. Guerriero’s analysis is twofold. On the one hand he focuses on the project for the city, on the other on the choice of the name that will guide it. Thus, while waiting for the administrative elections, according to the representative of Progetto Civico Italia «it is essential to ask ourselves: which city do we want to build? The political confrontation instead seems to focus, once again, on names. I read about many good people proposed, or who propose themselves, to lead the Municipality. But personal qualities and good intentions, alone, do not constitute a government project.” Further motivating the proposal for primary consultations is the need to build a political class capable of «exercising an authoritative political and administrative direction» for a regional capital: «For this I believe it is necessary to start from the primaries.
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