Benedetto then rejects Cannizzaro’s personal attack on his professional experience at the Gom in Reggio Calabria. «Cannizzaro – he states – should study its recent history. He should know who worked for the birth of public cardiac surgery, who brought robotic surgery, who unlocked PET and – continues Benedetto – who contributed to achieving results that have allowed thousands of citizens to be treated in Reggio Calabria. These are the facts, I’ll send the nonsense back to the sender.
«The people of Reggio will be able to judge»
“Cannizzaro – adds Benedetto – considers me not very credible to represent Reggio in Rome. It is curious to hear it from those who maintain that the best possible representative of Reggio is a Roman professional, chosen because he knows the rooms of Forza Italia well. I live in this city, I work in this city and I have served the Reggio healthcare system for years. Roscioli, by Cannizzaro’s own admission, would arrive for a few months and then return to his national political activity. The people of Reggio will be able to judge which of the two has a real connection with this territory.”
Benedetto: «His center-right is divided and torn»
«Cannizzaro can try to hide the divisions of the center-right behind his usual shouted declarations, but today his center-right is divided and torn. On the one hand – explains Benedetto – he defends a Roman candidate chosen by the Forza Italia apparatus, on the other he loses a regional group leader who is running with General Vannacci. This is the political masterpiece that he would like to present to the people of Reggio as a strategy, almost tender, if it didn’t seem like a joke from ‘Count Mascettì. I don’t accept lessons in regency from those who, as soon as they won the mayor’s seat, preferred the convenience of their own party to the needs of the city. Cannizzaro think about governing Reggio and at least have the courage to tell the truth: with Roscioli he chose Rome against Reggio. We – concludes the cardiologist – have made the opposite choice: we have privileged our territory and our people”