«Finally in Reggio Calabria there is a new ruling class and the candidacy of Fabio Roscioli fits into this framework, which we strongly wanted, myself personally and President Occhiuto, but me even more because to replace me in Rome we obviously need a competent person, a qualified, authoritative person, who can make a contribution in these six months left to the end of the legislature to unblock the economic lines blocked in Rome».
Thus the mayor of Reggio Calabria, Francesco Cannizzaro (FI), on the sidelines of an electoral event in view of the by-elections of Reggio Calabria. «This is the strategy we have put in place. Then someone during the election campaign says: ‘Well, but he’s from Rome, he’s a foreigner. But do we want Fabio Roscioli, who is the sole administrator of Forza Italia, a competent person who knows the parliamentary and clearly governmental dynamics, to work for Reggio and the metropolitan area for six months, or Frank Benedetto, who is a decent person but who evidently, if he ever were to win, would go to the opposition to shout at the Meloni government or raise his hand or press some buttons?” «This clearly won’t happen, because we will win the elections easily, because the people of Reggio are intelligent, they have understood which side they should be on, which is the center-right», concluded Cannizzaro.