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«With Frank Benedetto we represent a way of doing politics: that of being among the people. Our unitary candidate was born in civil society, he comes from the society of Reggio Calabria, he comes from the social perimeter of Reggio Calabria, in a field as delicate as that of healthcare. Where he worked and today makes this extraordinary expertise available to the city and the entire college of Reggio Calabria.” This was said by MEP of the 5 Star Movement Pasquale Tridico, today in Reggio Calabria to support Benedetto’s candidacy in the by-elections for the Chamber in Reggio Calabria.
«In Calabria – he added – we have a compact field. We didn’t win the regional elections last year, but for the first time we achieved a great result in 25 days of electoral campaign and if we had had a few more weeks we probably would have brought out the contradictions of the right. Because the right in Calabria is divided over posts, undersecretaries, councilors.” «It was supposed to be a mid-August consultation – Benedetto said – in which a seat to be filled will not be decided, and the national political balance will certainly not change, but it will be important because it will be possible to change the city’s representative in Parliament. We are carrying out an electoral campaign by talking to people.” – A councilor of the council of the mayor of Reggio Calabria Francesco Cannizzaro, «on La7 stated that Fabio Roscioli is a candidate who came from outside, that no one knows him». This was said by the MEP of the 5 Star Movement Pasquale Tridico, today in Reggio Calabria to support the candidacy of Frank Benedetto in the by-elections for the Chamber in Reggio Calabria. «They are all angry – added Tridico – because power, how they distribute it to Forza Italia, is truly a shameful thing. Just like Vannacci, who invented himself as a Christian Democrat, Domenico Giannetta who for reasons of seats were unable to settle, because they are divided among themselves.”
«The center-left has united in a very broad way, in addition to the classic parties of the so-called broad field, there is really the whole center-left, all the political forces, 12 national parties that support Frank Benedetto» adds the senator of the Democratic Party Nicola Irto, regional secretary of the party in Calabria, during the regional Unity Festival which started in Lamezia Terme, speaking about the by-elections for the Reggio Calabria Chamber. «We have recognized ourselves – he added – around an extraordinary and important civic figure, a recognized civic figure, a civic figure that broadens, a civic figure appreciated for his commitment and his work and an electoral campaign is being built around this figure also through a person who is from the territory, unlike the right which has nominated a nobody who is not from Reggio Calabria, who has never been to the province of Reggio Calabria who does not know the territory. One dropped from above. One nominee. All this is unacceptable for us and we are fighting an open battle alongside Frank Benedetto.”
“On the right there is this Vannacci-Meloni derby which is something we don’t comment on. It is the result, for me, of these four years of Meloni’s government which has failed to do anything for the country. Nothing for Calabria, the South is abandoned to itself. The only thing that leaves us as a legacy is Vannacci with the radicalization of the right. I think that we must concentrate with all the parties in the coalition on what we propose to the country. We are proposing another idea of society, stronger public health, a public school, I say this here from Lamezia”. Thus Francesco Boccia, group leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate, speaking to journalists at the regional Unity Festival in Lamezia Terme.
“So – he added – the Vannacci problem is the result of the absence of policies made by the right. Obviously the reaction of the far right is more of a social conflict. Vannacci takes us back 80 years. It is evident that the Italian right does not feel this Constitution is theirs and for this reason we, never before in this historical moment, are focused on another idea of society”.
“Frank Benedetto – said Boccia – is a heart surgeon that all Calabrians know and many are grateful to him for the exceptional work he has done in all these years. With Nicola Irto and we have tried to combine the civic aspect that Frank represents, with an alternative idea that we have of healthcare, a public healthcare that is on its knees that the right thought was yet another piece of state to be privatised. So we hope that in Reggio the whole college votes for Frank Benedetto for the quality of proposal”.