To heat up politics under the umbrella there are, in addition to the now famous seances, more or less declared negotiations and more or less defined reflections on imminent appointments and designations, the now unstoppable “war” of the polls.
South calls North and Controcorrente, the creatures of Cateno De Luca and Ismaele La Vardera, are the most active political forces, in this sense, evidently also playing on the psychological factor that the diffusion of the results of the polls themselves triggers in the electorate.
The last two polls made known in Sicily were commissioned by South calls North to the Swg institute, published on 6 August, and the one requested by Controcorrente to the BidiMedia institute, published on 13 July (but which only emerged in the media the day after that of ScN). Two apparently rather different surveys, both from the point of view of time and results: both, in fact, reward those who commissioned them, indicating the first De Luca and the second La Vardera as the candidates for the presidency of the Region most deserving of “trust” by the Sicilians. But there is also a substantial basic difference: the survey commissioned by La Vardera had a sample of 600 Sicilians, the one wanted by the South called the North of 3 thousand.
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