Michetti like Rocky. «We prepared Enrico for 9 hours», the communicators of the lawyer-tribune said in the pre-match. Gualtieri went through the dossiers to the last: “Roberto is a scholar, inseparable from his files”. So here they are in the Sky studios, just over 24 hours after the electoral silence gong (today there will be the final rallies). The second and penultimate TV confrontation of the Capital challenge comes on immediately. A game of tennis. There is talk of the Green pass, Michetti brakes: “I am vaccinated, but there is a lot to reflect on the obligation to work”.
Gualtieri he replies: “I am with the government and I will be at the CGIL demonstration, against a squadron and neo-fascist attack.” The center-right candidate in the square will not be there: “There is electoral silence”. On the subject he takes it wide open: “I remember the tanks in Budapest (in 1956, Michetti was born in 1966, ed) the communists were with the oppressors, I was from the DC”. “The DC did not put CasaPound on the list”, sinks Gualtieri. Michettian counter-offensive: “With Gualtieri the social centers would win, he opened his campaign in an occupied building.” Another controversy: shortly before the debate, Agcom opens an investigation into the anti-Semitic sentences on Radio Radio, the broadcaster that launched Michetti.
There is also a fight over the plagues of the city, of course. Waste. Both promise implants. But Michetti attacks “the left that has not applied the waste plan for 10 years” (to the Region). And it broadens the question to “begging, there will be zero tolerance.” “The poor are not waste,” stings Gualtieri. He replies: “The degradation has nothing to do with the poor.” Also hit the PNRR: “As a minister you didn’t put a euro for Rome,” says the FdI candidate. “There is the subway, there were no other projects,” replies the challenger dem. Rome’s debt: Gualtieri promises to cut the additional personal income tax. Michetti attacks again: “The left-wing juntas did the debt.” On the stadium in Rome and Lazio get along well. But it doesn’t last long. Another dispute: civil rights. For Michetti “it is inclusive” and cites as an example some “my friends from Barcelona who told me: here the bus is free” (because nobody pays for it). The former minister, on the other hand, is convinced that “more needs to be done on LGBT rights”.
Both are courting Raggi and his constituents. Michetti more: “He did so many good things.” “Against crime he has carried out an important action”, concedes Gualtieri, who is betting strongly on the endorsements of Conte and “many of the M5S”. And of Calenda. “But we have a lot of points planned with him,” says Michetti.
Sky’s comparison tries to peel off the political patina a little, to reveal the human side. Question: 3 items that you would take to the Capitol? Gualtieri, the only pop concession, mentions his beloved guitar. Then he gets serious again: the dossier on the NRP. Michetti: «I have 3 books on the history of Rome».
“3 bignami are not enough”, a dig from the challenger Pd. Another pop question: who would you like in addition to 6 famous characters on the big screen? Gualtieri indicates Zeman («for the areas, we are for the Rome of the districts»), Elodie and Gianotti of Cern. Michetti discards his beloved Augusto to throw Sora Lella and Andreotti: «Avercene!». The old Dc profile is also a way to shake off bindings. “I am a civic – he says in the final appeal – I will be free from parties and from Brussels, I announced the team with Bertolaso, Gualtieri, on the other hand, does not appoint it, for palace games”. The Democratic Party candidate closes by focusing on the CV: “I helped bring 200 billion European resources to Italy, now we are voting for the relaunch of Rome”.
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