At the end of the press conference, in a more crowded town hall than usual, the immediate comments, between one coffee and another, are the most disparate. “It’s clear, he won’t ally himself with anyone.” “He will go with the centre-right, Gervasi comes from there.” «Did you hear what he said about Ponte and the Democratic Party? He will make a deal with the centre-left.” “In my opinion we will go to vote in 2026.”
Everything and the opposite of everything. One of the things Cateno De Luca is very good at is shuffling the cards. And even in a historical phase in which he cannot be the one to dictate the times – he himself admitted it, much will depend on Roman and Palermo dynamics -, he continues to be the one to dictate the city’s political agenda, within that perimeter in which De Luca maintains that hegemony which, outside the borders of Messina, is dispersed in prefix percentages.
This is his stronghold, De Luca knows it and yesterday he wanted to reiterate it in his own way, with what, if one day he were to sit at a coalition table, could not be defined otherwise than a flight forward. A move that generates chaos and doubts, even opposing interpretations and evanescent predictions.
In reality, no one knows what will happen, probably not even De Luca himself, who however has an advantage over the others – an organization modeled in his image and likeness and a single-party administration in office for more than 7 years now – and he intends to exploit it.
After all, even today, he preaches in the desert and so he ended up taking the step that would have been expected from those who had and must recover ground, the opposition or presumed such: playing in advance, planning a candidacy in advance, even in a nebulous scenario.
The others? Not received. The center-right is losing pieces, without knowing, however, whether it faces a potential ally or a fearsome adversary.
On the other hand, how could we not notice the deafening silence that accompanied De Luca’s disorderly attack on the secretary of the main centre-left party, the Democratic Party?
Sun Tzu said: “In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity.” It’s all about being able to grasp it.