A psychodrama that unites the Center-Right and the Center-Left in Messina. The declarations, or silences, of the party leaders appear surreal and clash with the outcome of an election that leaves little room for alibis and justifications. There are those who rejoice at having taken a seat in the Council, those who say “but we remain the strongest opposition party”, those who refer to generic invitations such as “others must assume their responsibilities”. No one, except the city secretary of Forza Italia, Antonio Barbera, who gave everyone a class lesson and resigned, seems to have understood the significance of this vote, in Messina and Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, the second most populous and important municipality in the province.
Let’s start from the centre-right. Nobody says it officially yet but on the bench of the “defendants” there is you, the undersecretary for relations with Parliament, Matilde Siracusano. Whispers and voices, within the Brothers of Italy, the League and Forza Italia itself, speak of widespread discontent, of many who did not share either the candidacy for mayor or the electoral campaign carried out by the lawyer Marcello Scurria. Matilde Siracusano is blamed for the most disappointing result in the history of Forza Italia on the banks of the Strait, precisely in the city that should be the flagship of the Meloni-Tajani-Salvini government, the capital of the mini-Region united by the Bridge.
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