Bergamo administrative elections, Affari’s exclusivity confirmed: Andrea Pezzotta candidate for mayor for the CDX
Habemus maiorem candidatum (we have the mayoral candidate) also in the CDX field. There our exclusive from a week ago, it came to fruition today in the early afternoon of yesterday with a joint press release from the leaders of the CDX coalition.
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”Today’s meeting of the Lombardy regional coordinators of the centre-right – Carlo Maccari (Brothers of Italy), Fabrizio Cecchetti (Lega), Alessandro Sorte (Forza Italia) and Alessandro Colucci (We Moderates) – unanimously shared the name of the lawyer Andrea Pezzotta as a unitary candidate of the Centre-right for the next administrative elections for the Municipality of Bergamo, with the unanimous belief that this is the most suitable figure to win the elections and guarantee the city of Bergamo the best possible mayor”.
After months of negotiations, divisions of the provincial and regional territory, Bergamo has decided to overcome the internal disagreements of the CDX at a national level and entrust the civic, centrist lawyer Andrea Pezzotta the hopes of regaining the municipal council after 10 years of undisputed domination by Giorgio Gori who had succeeded in attracting many votes from the moderate liberal area of Forza Italia. Waiting for the new Pezzotta in the battle for the mayor’s seat will be the much more experienced and seasoned csx candidate Elena Carnevali who has already been on the electoral campaign for weeks with numerous local initiatives.
THE DOUBTS. In a week Forza Italia will go to a congress (Saturday 20th at the Bergamo Fair at 3.30 pm) to appoint the provincial manager, with Umberto Valois the only outgoing candidate, then an electoral campaign will begin in effect in which it will be necessary to deploy all the forces for a match that promises to be uphill and very difficult. The doubts that were spreading among the ranks of the Azzurri who had presented 4 candidates for months (which later became three with the withdrawal of the good and aggressive Giorgio Jannone), have not been completely dispelled, because to campaign and above all the mayor, you need a work 24 hours a day, something that Pezzotta, due to his profession as a lawyer, will certainly not be able to guarantee unlike the CSX candidate Elena Carnevali who has made politics a profession for years.
FdI insists on presenting Pezzotta as a candidate close to Forza Italia due to his past as a councilor in the Tentorio council, but rightly the regional manager Sorte and the local leaders do not intend to pick up the hot potato, reiterating instead that he is everyone’s candidate, but chosen by the majority party of the coalition.
THIRD POLE. The real challenge, however, will be to convince the third pole to move into one’s field. Carnevali also today launched an appeal to expand the coalition to Italia Viva e Azione especially after the refusal of the M5S which decided to go alone like kamikazes in the open sea with its own candidate.
Will Pezzotta, a moderate civic liberal, be able to involve the centrists, or will the national logic prevail with a base of IV and Action closer to the Centre/left?
Prepare the popcorn, the game begins.
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