Cuffaro: “I control 140 thousand votes”. Calenda attacks: “By whom or what?”

Clash in the center between Totò Cuffaro e Carlo Calenda. “With the last regional election, two years ago, we moved 140 thousand voters”. Thus the former governor of Sicily, convicted of aiding and abetting the mafia, in an interview with Reformist. “We think we can move 250,000 votes in Sicily,” she adds. The national secretary of the DC announces that he will be in Rome today to meet Matteo Renzi, (news denied by Italia viva) but not the United States of Europe list. “They never called me, I didn’t look for them”, confirms the former governor who instead says he is interested in “building a Centre”.

The reaction from Calenda is not long in coming, having recently criticized the formation of Bonino and Renzi for the possible membership of the former governor himself. “But it is possible that Cuffaro, – post on

Rejoinder from the interested party: “Calenda, in addition to being an insulter, is also a liar or doesn’t know how to read.” “In my interview with the Reformist – continues the centrist exponent – I say that the Christian Democrats received 140 thousand votes for the regional elections and that today they are worth at least 250 thousand. His clumsy statements, which make me declare that I control 140 thousand votes and his subtle exhortations to ask (who?) how I control them, are ridiculous, tendentious and confirm his antipathy for democracy and free choice for a vote ideal and values. If I were him, I would be ashamed.”

“As already said and reiterated, there will be no agreement between Italia Viva and Totò Cuffaro’s DC for the next European elections. Italia Viva will present itself together with Più Europa, PSI, Libdem in the United States of Europe list. Relaunching this news every day simply means relaunching fake news.” Thus in a note from the Italia Viva press office which also denies the meeting between Cuffaro and Renzi.