Elections Rome, Conte: Raggi excellent candidate, M5s compact on her

• The Chamber definitively approves the elections decree: administrative vote postponed in autumn

• Municipal: big maneuvers, the parties are looking for a solution for the candidates

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09 May 2021 In view of the administrative elections in the autumn, tensions over the candidacies between M5s and Pd.

"The 5 Star Movement on Rome has an excellent candidate: her name is Virginia Raggi, the outgoing mayor. The Movement supports her in a compact and convinced manner, at all levels". The former premier Giuseppe Conte writes in a note. "Virginia is giving a new face to the city - he maintains - and after an initial phase in which its administration had to show signs of discontinuity with the management of the past and had to sow so much, for some time now we have begun to see the clear fruits of this intense work and the Romans are realizing it more and more every day ".

"I'm sorry that in Rome the conditions have not been met to plan an electoral campaign with the Democratic Party in close synergy. I do not know who will be indicated by the Democratic Party as the official candidate and we will respect their choices. However, we hope that their decision does not call into question the common work that for some months has been successfully started at the regional government level, which deserves to be completed until the end of the legislature in the interest of all the citizens of the Region ", adds Conte. "The electoral campaign that awaits Rome - he continues - will be a sort of primary in our field, compared to the center-right field. We must act intelligently and make sure that in the event of a second round the privileged dialogue of the Movement with the Democratic Party can give its own fruits ".

"The strong embarrassment that a possible candidacy of Nicola Zingaretti for the Municipal Councils of Rome would bring to the newly formed regional alliance is undeniable". Thus the two 5s councilors of Nicola Zingaretti's council, Roberta Lombardi and Valentina Corrado. "The situation that would arise (united in the Region and opponents in Rome with Zingaretti as candidate and president) would touch the paradox", say the pentastellate, hoping that the choices of the Democratic Party on Rome "do not contemplate solutions that would inevitably have repercussions on the holding of the current regional majority and on scenarios of future alliances in Lazio ".

The president of the Campania regional council, Vincenzo De Luca, confirms his doubts about a possible candidacy of the pentastellato Roberto Fico in the elections for the mayor of Naples. Speaking at "Half an hour more", De Luca said: "I see a return of vintage politics, in the style of the 80s, when the pentapartite met and in Rome they decided the distribution of the candidates, without ever starting from the two basic problems: who is more capable, and who has the most effective program. Within this framework there is Naples, as there is Rome ". Asked if he deems it necessary to hold the primary, De Luca said: "They are definitely a tool, because this is causing another detachment of citizens from the institutions".

As for the relationship with the M5S, De Luca said: "I think it is necessary to build a coalition with them, but on the basis of a truth operation. We are interested in their positive evolution. The Five Stars have coexisted with incompatible areas, a progressive and a conservative, and even reactionary. They have said everything and the opposite of what they

have been telling

us

for 10 years. I would like to understand exactly what their position is. "