After the accusations received of having created the Basilicata problem, Speranza breaks the delay and explains to his allies the reasons for his failed candidacy, which would have avoided the constant tug-of-war between the Pd and the M5S. «The daily death threats and insults from fragments of the anti-vaccine galaxy continue unabated – she writes on Facebook. There is continued incitement to personal hatred on social media.
The climate has worsened since the parliamentary commission of inquiry into Covid was announced, which still forces me to live under surveillance.” These are the arguments that would have led Comrade Roberto not to run in the next elections in April, despite of the repeated appeals of the great progressives. Rosy Bindi is the last one who has attributed responsibility for what happened in Potenza and its surroundings: “He was wrong – he told Gruber, in an interview in Otto e Mezzo – to refuse. There would have been unity among the entire center-left and would probably have won the elections.
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A position in which several Nazarene bigwigs had found themselves who, even overcoming the usual currents, had focused on him. In fact, both Schlein and Conte himself, several months ago, had asked the minister during the dark days of confinement and vaccines to take a step forward in the broad field. In his opinion, it would have better represented the agreement in Sardinia that allowed Todde to prevail over the centre-right candidate.
A compromise, however, never accepted by the interested party, who had instead indicated to Chiorazzo, a profile on which it was not possible to reach an agreement, thus opening himself first to the solution never born from Lacerenza and then to the last minute plan. . Piero Marrese, president of the province of Matera, about whom there was no shortage of controversies after Azione and Italia Viva closed with the center right.
However, to clarify the causes of a more difficult path than expected is Speranza himself, according to whom there was no strategic option behind not going out on the field. Therefore, he responds to those critics who told him that he feared a drop in his popularity, as indicated several times by polls.
“I have read – he clarifies – some reconstructions, in my opinion meaningless, that always start from a fundamental elimination that is unacceptable to me: what it meant and what are the consequences of having been Minister of Health during the pandemic.”
To all this would have been added, then, another reason, which in his opinion is not trivial, that is, not to betray the people of Campania, who had trusted him in their last policies: “I was elected – he explains to his followers – just a year and a half ago in the Chamber, making an agreement with the voters of the Naples constituency who placed their trust in me. The jump from one candidacy to another in such a short time has always seemed surreal to me, as if the institutions were taxis, without caring about the popular mandate.” He even states that this modus operandi does not correspond to his respect for the institutions. Since the pandemic to too many commitments, the publication, meanwhile, is making quite a noise among the varied audience of social networks. In addition to the likes and the numerous thanks for the work carried out during a difficult period for Italy and Europe, there was no shortage of comments from who accuse him of wanting to get away from an uncertain electoral confrontation and in which some catchy phrases to win the day. That said, the former minister speaks of an election of respect, considering that whoever is running for the leadership of Basilicata, in his opinion , “you must be willing to give your all, 24 hours a day, putting this role before any other thought or worry.”