The electoral campaign for the regional in Calabria starts the conclusion. The center -left is preparing for his final rally, scheduled in Piazza Bernardino Fosse, in Corigliano Rossano, who will see the presence of the leader of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Contealongside the candidate for the presidency of the Region, Pasquale Tridico. The leader of the center -left, Elly Schlein, has connected remotely and did not want to miss the important event.
«You have a few hours in front, to make a difference. We know that many people no longer believe that their vote makes a difference on their material conditions. This right is demonstrating the opposite: it tramples the rights, denies the minimum wage, denies the fight against precariousness and indeed makes the work for young people in Calabria more precarious. It is a right that has forgotten industrial policies and is a right that cuts on health, welfare and public school. We must not accept it, we can make the difference ».
Schlein, in his speech, mentioned the priorities of the coalition for Calabria, from the return of the young people who have gone, to the “defense of the public school as the first place of social emancipation of people, where to unlock that social elevator that broke and within which we suffocate and multiply the nursery school because they are the place where educational poverty is contrasted, but where a lot of work is given, especially to women. When there are no kind of kindergartens, Calabrian women are mainly renouncing work. We don’t do much of a women’s premier if he does not fight to improve the living conditions of all the other women in this country ».
Another priority indicated by the secretary dem, with the proposal of a minimum regional salary to counter precariousness, and the right to home and democracy “. «I want to thank all the forces that they are supporting Pasquale Tridico – concluded Schlein – who is the most careful and most authoritative person who could nominate to the guidance of this region. The Democratic Party has put itself on great commitment in this election campaign because it is convinced that you must be the next president of the region ».
Senator Marco Croatti, one of the four parliamentarians of the Flotilla. «Staying there is frightening – he said – but we cannot turn back and forget that it happens in that country. At the sea the messages that came to us fueled us. When the boats arrived there were reconciling moments, the cell phone fell into the sea. I was dragged out, photographed, filmed and brought to other places without having anyone’s support. The only support came from Giuseppe Conte ».
Conte, from the stage of Corigliano Rossano, said that “in the twenty -first century we witness a genocide, day after day, but our government did not represent: 150 thousand wounded, 60 thousand deaths, a great famine. Gaza is all destroyed: they killed health personnel so that they didn’t care. ” Did the leader of the M5S also spoke of the bridge over the Strait: «Bridge on the Strait? There are critical issues, where do you want to go? On this infrastructure there are 300 million of cohesion funds, taken … to you. And they would serve as bread and instead have been taken and thrown into the bottomless well of the bridge over the strait ».
Then he addressed the theme of the regional ones: «This is an election campaign marked by cunning, because Occhiuto, a week after the interrogation, decided together with his lawyers to resign. But for those who are an administrator stands the duty to explain what happened. Why didn’t he wait for December? Why did the situation hurt the situation? He tried to put it offside, but it happened that the various political and social and cultural forces have compacted with a great sense of responsibility. We all unanimously indicated our candidate: Pasquale Tridico ».
Finally, Tridico read a letter-appeal to the voters: “This square is larger than 4 times than Lamezia a few days ago … we shot the hospitals but not because we are jackals: but because we want to understand. Hospitals that are empty boxes, with closed departments. We decided that the first thing we will do is to take 3200 between nurses and doctors ».
«In this month of the election campaign we have gone through more than 120 countries, we collected anger pain but also pride. I have the lady met in the hospital in my eyes: “I have been waiting for a visit for 9 months”. Closed departments, infinite waiting lists, a people who fear that an illness becomes a sentence. I also have young full of talented young people, full of energy but forced to put their hopes in suitcases and leave. And with them a piece of Calabria goes away. This land was used as an ATM. Those who governed it betrayed this land, but we were everywhere and warned something different. In Polistena a student said: “I want to stay, but give me a reason to do it.” In Acri a mother said to me: “I don’t ask you anything, if not serious”. On the one hand there are them who have betrayed their land and on the other: you have a great tool like the vote. With a simple gesture we can open a new season. My friends: it is the time of courage and redemption ».
The appointment represents the last opportunity for the coalition to mobilize the voters and present its proposals for the government of Calabria. However, the absence of the other main national leaders of the coalition is recorded, a detail that focuses attention on the tandem formed by Conte and Tridico in an attempt to give a final turn to the vote.
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