Supported by the entire center-right as well as by Italia Viva and exponents of Action, Marco Bucci, born in 1959, “mayor of doing” (in 2017 he tore the city to the left for the first time), based on the exit polls he goes towards reconfirmation at first round. Bucci is assigned a percentage between 51 and 55% against 36-40% of the main antagonist, the lawyer Ariel Dello Strologo, candidate of the progressive area.
According to the numbers, for Bucci it would be a clear success and above all a satisfaction that the electoral campaign of the opponents has not been able to scratch because the first polls gave him an advantage of 10-15 points over Dello Strologo and this distance seems to be confirmed.
Strategic infrastructures
Behind a long career as a manager of the pharmaceutical industry (also working in Switzerland and in the United States) the manager lent to public affairs, thanks to the management of the last 5 years in which Genoa has gone from its “Gound zero” (with the collapse of the Morandi bridge) to the reconstruction of the San Giorgio viaduct in record time, has staked everything on infrastructures. “We have restarted the city after 25 years – he says – now we have to carry out other works, from high speed to the Gronda, to the development of the underground network”. Among the objectives, also that of green mobility: “All buses will be electric” assures him.
Immediately to work for the new council
Extraordinary commissioner for the reconstruction of the Morandi bridge, Bucci has made a profit on the level of consensus for the work done in addition to the notoriety that has derived from the management of the reconstruction. «The first thing to get back to work immediately – he explains, answering on which, in case of re-election, the very first act to be completed for the city – will be to compose the council, but then to put down the many projects already financed. We will then have to manage the relationship with the internal offices and contacts with the ministries, but we will start immediately with the doubling of the resources available for maintenance and those for the social sector, which will go from 65 to 80 million ”.
Great works, the priority is the Gronda
Then there is the great works chapter. «I will also be heavily” above “the Gronda – he remembers – it is the number one priority. The city has been waiting for too long a fundamental infrastructure for the port, the economy, the growth. At the same time, the underground: we want to triple the route within the next 5 years from Prato to Rivarolo and up to Sampierdarena ».