The pressing of Giuseppe Conte and Elly Schlein has increased in intensity in the last few hours and aims to convince Pasquale Tridico to accept the candidacy for the presidency of the region. He is the first choice of the leaders of M5s and Pd to lead the wide field that will have to compete for the guidance of the Region to the resigning Roberto Occhiuto. If the European parliamentarian originally from Scala Coeli were to respond with a “yes”, the game could be considered closed and would make a nice sigh of relief to the colonels of the progressive forces that today will be seen in Lamezia Terme to find the quadrature of the circle and accelerate in view of the October vote.
The “yes”, however, has not yet arrived. Tridico continues to send messages not univocal to its interlocutors. On the one hand, he continues to reiterate that he wanted to respect the mandate that was entrusted to him by the voters of the entire South as their representative in the Parliament of Strasbourg, on the other he continues to repeat that he is willing to want to make a contribution in favor of Calabria. Does this mean that he will agree to guide a coalition capable of keeping the radical and moderate left forces together? The feeling is to be in front of the decisive joint.
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