The first on the list takes off, the man in pole position: Oscar di Montigny, 52, president of Flowe and Value Strategy Officer of Banca Mediolanum as well as CEO of Mediolanum Comunicazione, retires from the race at Palazzo Marino. A contribution to this choice could also have been the meeting held on Saturday with the regional and municipal councilors of Forza Italia which would have gone particularly badly. But above all it would have been Silvio Berlusconi’s “no” to make Ennio Doris’ son-in-law give up. But his retirement complicates things, since Matteo Salvini would always have the idea of presenting a ticket with Gabriele Albertini, on whose name, however, the Forza Italia blues would have expressed doubts. But “in the state there is no alternative candidate to Montigny on the table,” explain center-right sources. And this situation is one of the causes that pushed the Northern League leader, however committed elsewhere tomorrow, to postpone the summit of leaders, at least until next week. At the moment in the race for Palazzo Marino there could therefore only be Maurizio Lupi, former minister in Popolo delle Libertà quota and the only possible candidate whose name has stood for months, despite the perplexities of Salvini and the Lega (which in recent months has pulled out several from the hat, starting with Roberto Rasia dal Polo, manager of the Pellegrini group, the very first to be said to be available, already in January).
Di Montigny’s decision would therefore have forced the center-right to postpone the summit convened for tomorrow instead to next week.
As for the other two missing candidates in view of the autumn administrative, the situation remains substantially unchanged. In Naples there is the problem of the resistance of the civic candidate, the prosecutor Catello Maresca, to present himself supported by the symbols of the parties. In Bologna there remains a two-way race between Mugavero and Battistini