“Today the conditions to beat the right are there: to the provincials, on 6 provinces go to the vote, the PD has won two. One in three. We have shown that an alternative is possible in this land. In Trapani there was a significant opening to civil society. People are tired of this heated soup of the center right. We start from the hard core of the progressive field with PD, M5S, the Green and Left Alliance, trying to broaden also to some worlds of civil society of moderate areas ». The outgoing secretary of the Democratic Party in Sicily says so, Anthony Barbagallo, the only one seared to the regional secretariatspeaking on the sidelines of an initiative in support of the candidate for the Provincial Secretariat of Palermo, Albanese Mari, in Villa Filippina. «The theme – he continues – is also that of the skills and a commitment of the younger generations towards political proposals. The internal debate must be on ideas. Never as now also serves a party proposal, which comes out of the confrontation with young democrats and fresh forces, therefore people who want to bring closer to the Democratic Party ».
Barbagallo takes the opportunity also to replicate the controversies on the validity of the regional congress in which he is the only candidate.
«In these years of party management I have tried to always have an inclusive attitude, and that’s what I propose to do also in view of the seasons that will come. The National Party, for the Regional Congress, appointed the Commissioner, Nico Stumpto. The congress is going forward and the best answer, at this moment, are giving the members, responding to the controversies, tensions on the rules and saying: we are there. This weekend, based on the data that is provided to us by the clubs, there is a large turnout to the polls. The average is 75 % of the votes on the regional level ». Based on the data provided by the Sicilian party on 240 clubs in Sicily, to date, from 16 evening, the date on which the votes have been opened for the congress procedures, they voted for about 10% of the members, with a percentage of turnout of 75%. We vote for the renewal of the regional secretariat, for the organisms and secretaries of circles and for the organisms and provincial secretaries. The votes will end by June 1 and from 15 June the date of the regional assembly will be established in which the president of the regional assembly will be elected, in the first session, then we will vote for the regional management and finally the regional secretary will proclaim. «Tonight – he continues – there will be the bare in some most populous circles. At this moment the party must respond by talking about political proposals and themes for the redemption of Sicily “, concludes Barbagallo.
Furfaro, people are disinterested in our bets, return to talk about politics
«In this historical moment the invitation for all the members of the Democratic Party is that of talking about politics, not of rules. For this there are the organisms in charge. The theme, in the world, in Italy and in Sicily, is that at this moment it is governing the worst right and our theme must be the responsibility of having the knowledge of reality. People are not interested in our bets and interest political proposals. Are there those who say they want to desert the regional congress? I think it is always wrong not to participate ». It is the position of the deputy of the Democratic Party Marco Furfaro, present as Barbagallo to the initiative in support of Mari Albanese, in Villa Filippina. “I support Albanian Mari – he continues – because we are in an era in which politics needs to reconstruct”. «She is an activist who made the anti -mafia his preliminary policy in a land where little Mafia is spoken very well. The Democratic Party must put in place a ruling class that carries on contemporary challenges. You can bring, with her competence and passion, so much oxygen and vitality to our party », concludes Furfaro.