The final rush has begun. Since yesterday theprovincial congress assembly which will lead, at the beginning of next week, to the election of new provincial secretary of the Democratic Party. It is not just any step, in a party that over the years has caused discussion mainly due to internal divisions, strategic choices during electoral campaigns and the directions of this or that current leader. And it’s not because, for the first time in Messina, the Democratic Party is dealing with a “real” congress, with two candidates which, according to the forecasts of both parties, are very close, even after the long phase of the “tour” among the clubs of the province. Armando Hyerace and Alessandro Russo they are now two historical faces of the Democratic Party of Messina, two militants who have done their “gavetta”, inside and outside the buildings, they have also been part of phases in which the Democratic Party had internal opposition compared to decidedly unbalanced power relations and they are been protagonists of chiaroscuro seasons, sometimes even distant from each other, without ever getting off a ship in trouble among the waves of rough waters.
Even now there are fairly defined alignmentsalthough difficult to trace back to the congressional areas of the party’s last national round: there are representatives of Schlein, Bonaccini and Cuperlo areas on both sides. Alongside Hyerace there are those who, until the eve of the presentation of the candidatures, were in the running to take the field personally, the former secretary of Article One Domenico Siracusanobut also the city councilor Antonella Russo. With Russo there is the other Dem city councilor, Felice Calabròand also the only Messina parliamentarian from the PD, the regional deputy Calogero Leanza. Support from which sparks were also born, kept more or less away from the spotlight, but the feeling is that the climate within the party is less idyllic than we want to tell. It remains to be seen what it will be like after the last congressional phase, which will end on Sunday evening. In the meantime, the two candidates draw a line, before the “gong”.
