Tones often in color but with great honesty: Paolo Ferrara, vice president of the City Council of Rome does not hide behind the interpretation of the numbers: the administrative meetings of June 12 for the Five Star Movement were a sensational defeat.
And the grillina representation comes out with broken bones, there is also room for a Caporetto as happened in Guidonia, where the outgoing mayor was sent home in the first round.
So Ferrara, how did these elections go?
“Let’s move on to the second question please. But yes, it went badly, very badly and it was predictable and this is because strategic mistakes were made ”.
Before the mea culpa, let’s see the effects. What will happen to the Government and above all what will happen to the Lazio Region where two councilors, Lombardo and Corrado have already signed the electoral alliance with the Democratic Party?
“I am convinced that a reflection on a national level should be opened but we are now on the eve of the white semester and no head shots. We need a more organic reasoning on what suits our Movement. So inside the breakfast we are null ”.
And at the level of the Lazio Region?
“Let me tell you: Rome takes 20% with the Raggi model and with the civics and therefore it worked. And rome cuba 50% of the regional electorate and now we have disappeared in the province. For the regional teams we have to start with these data “.
Is it a controversy with the councilors Valentina Corrado and Roberta Lombardi?
“No, it is a suggestion to be able to find the right way and represent the movement on the territory”.
Is it a diplomatic way of saying that the alliance with the Democratic Party does not work?
“I work for the Movement, I’m not a diplomat”.
Let’s go back to mistakes. Which?
“In my opinion we are paying for the support of the Draghi government and the belly of the voters is stimulated. It is clear that when we ally with the Democratic Party we are not understood ”.
Let’s analyze the results of the alliance with the Dem …
“In Guidonia we had the outgoing mayor and we returned 4% without even a councilor. In Viterbo we are at 1.8. Here are the numbers that say we are penalized by this choice. In Frosinone we are at 1.6-1.8, I think of Rieti where there was a strange symbol and even there .. “.
But will there be something positive?
“Yes, the refugees from the Movement converged in Alternative who take 3.8”.
Listen, you are an honest and straightforward person and a hard worker for the Movement. How hot is this election?
“Yes, I have always worked even when I took the responsibility of asking Piazza San Giovani for 1 million people … without any structure to help me and this is because I believed in the project”.
Was the question burning? And how much?
“I don’t think it’s acute but an important crisis. We have always shown that in difficult moments we were able to restart. This time, always a more articulated reasoning, more political and less of a gut ”.
These administrative authorities say that you are below the threshold … practically disappeared …
“Yes, that’s why some reasoning is needed. In this project there is no political expression and we must make a reasoning. In Guidonia if we presented ourselves alone we would have taken at least 10% Instead … “.
Instead?
“The Democratic Party has swallowed us up and Europa Verde has filled up. The environmentalists have taken our support and have gone from 1.8 to 5%. If they have to choose between the Greens and us, the voters choose them ”.
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