Negotiations, discussions and attempts at agreement move beneath the surface, but in the meantime public declarations serve to clarify things between allies. This is how the center-right of Catanzaro proceeds to choose the candidate for mayor who, next spring, will present himself at the city’s electoral judgement. So much so that yesterday it was Filippo Mancuso, vice-president of the regional council and strongman of the city’s centre-right under the aegis of the League, who sent a message to his allies defining the identikit of his ideal candidate: «Since I have been involved in politics – he said in his reasoning – the mayors of Catanzaro have been two professional politicians, an entrepreneur from the Confindustria area who lends himself to politics and a university professor (in order, Olivo and Traversa, Abramo, Fiorita, ndc). Yet, the city is in the conditions we all see. I believe, at this point, that the time has come for the people of Catanzaro to choose a mayor who is one of them, a popular man, who has the votes. Someone who knows the neighborhoods, who is respected by municipal employees and workers. In short, after twenty years, it is time that we choose the popular area and not the entrepreneurial or, let’s say, philosophical area.”
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