It will take at least another two weeks before we have the definitive and certain picture of the composition of the next city council. In recent days we have gone too far in listing the 32 most likely to be elected, but the many anomalies that are emerging from the verification operations underway at the Central Electoral Office located in Palazzo Zanca are an invitation to prudence, also because there is no shortage of situations in the balance. There is still an open game, for example, entirely within the centre-right, with Fratelli d’Italia who have not stopped hoping for a third seat, in addition to those which now seem certain for Libero Gioveni and Dario Carbone, and which would eventually go to Debora Buda, but which would be taken away from the League, which at the moment considers both Amalia Centofanti and the second arrival, Cosimo Oteri, elected. In the complex calculation of the d’hondt method, in fact, a few votes “dance” to tip the scales to one side or the other.
In the Democratic Party, the outgoing group leader, Felice Calabrò, is currently out by a handful of votes compared to the trio of elected representatives: the first by distance, Mariella Perrone, and the two Russos, Alessandro and Antonella, but here too the small advantage suggests waiting. Another situation in the balance, the one that characterizes the Messina Protagonist list, in the galaxy of the South calls North, where in addition to Paolo Alibrandi, former president of Amam, and Alessandro La Cava, former board of directors of Arisme, the third seat is contested by Antonino Bonfiglio, currently ahead, and Simona Paratore. Here too we will have to wait.
In the meantime, there are already those who are thinking about what the political, rather than numerical, structures of the chamber will be and that someone is, once again, Marcello Scurria. The first of the losing mayoral candidates, guest of Scirocco on Rtp, announces: «I will change the opposition system. In Messina there is an anomaly, I saw suburbs and villages and abandoned people, yet Basile won there too, which is why I spoke of Stockholm syndrome, without wanting to offend anyone. This is the fault of the opposition, having allowed administration with a single voice. I will then try to create a shadow government, which can counter this system. I will speak with the other city councillors, including those from the centre-left, and I will ask them to form a compact opposition, to stem this patronage management of power.”
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