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27 December 2019Jole Santelli will be the center-right canidadata in the regional elections in Calabria. Mario Occhiuto has in fact accepted the invitation reiterated yesterday by Silvio Berlusconi. "I hope - even knowing your selfless love for Calabria I allow myself to say that I am sure - the leader of Forza Italia wrote to the Occhiuto brothers - that despite understandable personal bitterness you will want to continue your journey with us, for a united center-right and giving up choices that would only benefit our opponents. "

Eye: "Just the invitation of Berlusconi, my race ends here"
And today Mario Occhiuto announces that he wants to accept the knight's invitation. "Dear Calabresi, my race ends here". Mario Occhiuto, on Facebook, thus announces his step back from the race for the presidency of the Calabria Region to favor a unitary candidacy - in favor of another FI member, Jole Santelli - of the center-right. "At the suggestion of many friends involved and after yet another solicitation from President Berlusconi - explains the mayor of Cosenza - I decided to step aside. Silvio Berlusconi is a person dear to me, whom I have always esteemed and admired, and today at where we are I judged your invitation to be fair and sensible ".

"I have not asked for assignments for myself and I will not play any role in the regional authority", explains Occhiuto who confirms that he "proposed to the candidate for President Jole Santelli to incorporate into his program those ideas on which we had so much focused on the ecological turnaround and new creative and innovative investments. And I asked her to be an active part, once elected, to speed up construction sites with works in progress in the city of Cosenza and to start the procedures for the construction of the new Hospital on the site we propose ".

"My lonely run would have seemed like retaliation"
He acknowledges, Occhiuto - who in his state on the social network defines himself "reassured" - that "on the other hand, there are no conditions for carrying out the change plan of the Calabria Region that we had in mind, with the hope of a victory In fact the current electoral system foresees, only in Calabria, the joint vote between the candidate President and the councilors. With this system we could have obtained an excellent result, but, having against everyone, not the victory. My solitary race would have seemed almost a retaliation or a spite; and I - claims - I am used to building, not to destroying ".

"I led a battle and was defeated"
"I led a tough battle and I was defeated. This is the truth. My only goal, believe me, was to carry out a 'mission': to change Calabria and make it better and full of opportunities for our children. it would have been possible to achieve this goal but I would have provoked - he notes again - probable negative consequences for many friends who would have followed me anyway ". "I sincerely thank all those who believed in me and in the project we had set up. And I apologize to those among them who were convinced of the need to continue and to the many citizens who write to me every day encouraging me to go I have done everything to the last day. I will not forget their affection and closeness. Anyone who aspires to run for regional councilor will find, with a greater probability of success, in the lists of the united center-right ", he promises.

"We remain an active cultural force in the area. And if God wills, I will continue to play the role of mayor of Cosenza, dedicating myself even more to the city and then, in a little over a year, I will complete the my mandate and my political commitment in favor of the community. Thank you very much from all ", concludes Occhiuto.