An applause, a long pause and the eyes veiled with tears. These are the three images that photograph the mood of Pasquale Tridico, leader of a wide field, very wide. And it is precisely among the shirts of this coalition created in the aftermath of the resignation of Roberto Occhiuto that the ambitions of the progressive field fell. He believed it a tridic, even if the winds that spirated on the elections in Calabria did not go in the desired direction by the Democratic Party, by the 5 Star Movement and the other realities gathered under the banner of the center -left.
«It was a short but intense battle. The resignation of Occhiuto, caused in an opportunity, have caught us by surprise. However, our answer was strong even though he was a difficult battle. ” This was said by the center -left candidate for the Calabria Region, Pasquale Tridico, commenting on the headquarters the electoral result from his headquarters. «Now – he added – serves a strong political response. For my part there is a great disappointment, but the spirit of many people who fought by spirit comforts me. The left must not be afraid of radical reforms, only in this way can we hope again. We must reorganize the progressive field. There is a need for industrial policies to allow our young people to return to Calabria. The data on the turnout also shows that in Calabria there are few people compared to those on paper. My commitment to Calabria will continue. I phoned Occhiuto to congratulate me. Hoping for the good of the Calabrians – he added about the rival, reconfirmed – I hope that it can govern the best, to solve many unresolved problems that we have in Calabria: of health, infrastructures ».
«At the polls it went just over 43%, one point less about the last regional ones which was 44%. The result – he observed – is substantially the result of two things: on the one hand the depopulation, which means that many voters in the region are not physically present here, despite being resident but are out, for work or for study, and this represents the main problem of Calabria today “. “On the other hand – he continued – the disaffection of Calabrian citizens towards politics, a phenomenon that has a national trend that in Calabria is even stronger”. Compared to all this, he concluded, “politics must give answers”.