2025 in Messina politics (and not only) opens, inevitably, in the wake of the De Luca-Schifani pact sealed, just under 24 hours before the New Year’s Eve countdown, in the headquarters of the metropolitan city. A place that is probably not accidental, given that there could also be the future of that institution within the great cauldron of possible scenarios opened by what took place on Monday at Palazzo dei Leoni.
The new year begins and the questions pile up: what will happen now? Will something also change in the political framework and in the balance of power in the city council? Will this agreement turn into electoral agreements? And – a far from strange question, given the fickleness of certain decisions – how long will it last?
The answers, at this stage, can only be hypothetical. It is unlikely, however, that anything will change at Palazzo Zanca from tomorrow. So far the moves that have featured Cateno De Luca at a regional level (the dialogue, until not long ago, was certainly closer with the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement than with the centre-right) they have followed parallel and separate tracks compared to those of local politics. Everything suggests that, at least for now, the approach will remain the same, also because just a few hours before the joint (remote) conference De Luca-Schifani, the citizen coordinator of Forza Italia, Antonio Barberahad not been particularly flattering towards the Basile administration, accused of having little planning.
Everything on stand-by, therefore, also because the feeling is that the real game is being played elsewhere, in that metropolitan city, precisely, which hosted Monday’s meeting. There De Luca placed a very loyal as general manager Pippo Campagna and, somewhat surprisingly (and perhaps not with unanimous enthusiasm within the party), he identified the president of South calls North, Laura Castelli, the new head of cabinet of the institution. A pre-eminently political figure, because the phase that is opening is political: the possible provincial elections (with direct vote?) which should be held in the first part of 2025 could prove to be the first, true test of this interlocutory agreement with the center-right and the president of the Region.