The President of the Region will not campaign for centre-right candidates. In these last days separating the polls, Sunday and Monday, Renato Schifani will remain at Palazzo d’Orleans and will only make a short trip to Rome for institutional commitments. For the rest, not a rally nor a visit to the cities where the coalition that supports him is appearing divided as has rarely happened in the past.
Schifani took this decision precisely because “where the coalition is divided it is not right for me to take a position”. The reference is to Agrigento, where the DC and the League support Luigi Gentile while the rest of the center-right focuses on Dino Alonge. And even in Enna the coalition has split, albeit unofficially: Forza Italia, Fratelli d’Italia and Mpa are with Ezio De Rose while Lega and DC, behind civic symbols, have chosen Mirello Crisafulli and the centre-left. It is a situation that is also replicated in cities that are not the capital but are equally important, such as Marsala and Termini Imerese. Hence Schifani’s choice not to take sides, also because the president is planning a two-day “retreat” with all the big names from the allied parties for the post-administrative session to close ranks at the Ars and plan the final rush of the legislature which already sees the July maneuver and the end-of-year maneuver which will have a budget of 2 billion on the agenda.
Schifani’s choice in this atypical electoral campaign is different from that of Fratelli d’Italia. On Monday Giovanni Donzelli and Luca Sbardella stopped with various national deputies in Termini Imerese, Carini and Marsala to support Antonio Battaglia, Rossella Covello and Giulia Adamo. Yesterday it was Minister Foti’s turn.
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