“With Futuro Nazionale we won 11% of the electorate, with 8,226 votes. Alone. Against everyone. And they are votes that express consensus for the candidate and the party. The analysis is very simple: I didn’t start from the 10,452 thousand votes in the regional elections, but from around 5 thousand. Because the by-election college is different and does not include the 26 municipalities of the Piana di Gioia Tauro where, in the regional elections, I had, in fact, around 5 thousand preferences”. This is what Domenico Giannetta, regional councilor and candidate with Futuro Nazionale in the Reggio Calabria by-elections for the seat in the Chamber of Deputies left vacant by the former deputy and now mayor of Reggio, Francesco Cannizzaro, states in a note.
“Despite the very low turnout – which remains the most critical figure together with the harsh and vulgar tones of the campaign – the unfavorable constituency and the mobilization of the centre-right apparatus and the broad centre-left camp – continues Giannetta – I doubled the preferences in Reggio city, where the centre-right lost 19% of the consensus. Just as we achieved excellent results in large municipalities in the province, where we reached 14.66%. An enormous result.
General Roberto Vannacci, whom I thank, says it well: numbers are numbers. The rest is talk. In terms of numbers, Rosciali wins but stops at 51% and does not reach 69% of the municipal elections. Our mandate – he concludes – was to obtain 7%, we have greatly exceeded it. 11% of the Reggio Calabria constituency belongs to Futuro Nazionale which I represent, and is no longer from Forza Italia. And it’s just the beginning.”