Messina’s result is «a sensational result. One suit won. Unique case of civic and autonomist monocolour. For the third time we manage to win: in 2018 and in the two subsequent unions of Federico Basile. In Messina and the other Municipalities the others instead came out with coalitions. We have split the center-right. We are writing a beautiful page of history” the leader of the South calls the North, Cateno De Luca, commenting on the data of the outgoing Federico Basile, his most loyal, who had resigned a year early due to insurmountable conflicts with the City Council. The first projection gave the outgoing mayor at 53% and the Sicilian electoral law provides that a run-off is not necessary if at least 40% is obtained in the first round.
De Luca, in a live broadcast, which started shortly after 3pm and ended about two and a half hours later, seems to have sent out some messages – not even in code – for the future of regional alliances, examining the results of South Calls North in Sicily, and especially in the Messina area, at 360°.
Among his first statements was a harsh attack on the Center-Left and on the candidate Antonella Russo who, according to the leader of the South, called North would have “wrong electoral campaign”. De Luca reels off some polling data in his possession and comments as follows: “In the last days of the electoral campaign, the centre-left candidate lost several percentage points, votes which went to the centre-right candidate”.
And on the centre-right he said instead: “It was enough for them to guess the candidate to really put us in difficulty. So I thank them because with Marcello Scurria, we went well beyond predictions in Messina”.
And therefore, a blow to the circle and one to the barrel, from the leader of the South calls the North according to which in Messina essentially: “The Center-Left got the election campaign wrong, the Center-Right candidate…”.
On the matches involving Barcelona, Milazzo and Giardini Naxos, he said instead: “According to my data in Giardini you win with around 60%. In Barcelona there is the risk that we win in the first round with Melangela Scolaro who has had an excellent electoral campaign. In Milazzo the situation, however, is more delicate”.