A little revenge, a little revenge. Ignazio Marino from Philadelphia to Brussels, passing through Rome, he aspires to be a surgeon of Europeanism by running for the European elections with the Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra list of Angelo Bonelli e Nicola Fratoianni.
Ignazio Marino returns to Rome: “I got back on my bicycle and fell twice due to potholes. The capital is a disaster”
by Marina de Ghantuz Cubbe
The return of the former mayor of the capital is an unexpected one, which is made official today in front of reporters and cameras at the headquarters of the foreign press to give this political operation an international profile. After all, the professor of surgery at Thomas Jefferson University, who will be number one in the Center constituency, had disappeared from the political scene, and until the end, when the rumors were becoming more and more insistent, many hoped that it wasn’t the case. .
And instead the “Martian” first citizen, a doctor lent to politics, pacifist and environmentalist, has returned to disrupt things, to annoy former Dem friends, steal votes from the 5 Star Movement and the greatest humiliation, the deepest satisfaction that one would like to remove, would be to get even one more vote than the list of Matteo Renzi, the then secretary who led him to resign from Palazzo Senatorio. «I was stabbed by twenty-six names and surnames, but with only one instigator», Marino said in October 2015 when he learned that nineteen of his centre-left councilors together with seven others had resigned, in front of a notary, decreeing the end of his administration.
Today Marino wants to start again where he left off, in the hope of driving the Green and Left Alliance list beyond 4% by riding on the issues dearest to him, which are environmentalism, urban and social regeneration, public health, stopping the sending of weapons into Ukraine and the recognition of the State of Palestine with attached ceasefire.
Therefore Marino wants to be a figure of synthesis among the souls of the left, disappointed by the political line taken by the secretary Elly Schlein, and environmentalists. The ace in the hole, to be spent in the capital, bears the symbol of the waste-to-energy plant, to which the former mayor has always been against while the Roman Democratic Party and the current Capitoline administration have now given the green light and started all the procedures. It is a burning issue for the Capital, which the Greens and the Left are ready to use in the electoral campaign in their favor.
Many then, during the years of his administration, also considered Marino a bit of a grillino, because like the 5 Stars he had come from civil society, in particular from an operating room and not from the political chambers, because he had himself photographed on a bicycle and he would have liked to pedestrianize as much as possible despite the car traffic. The common themes therefore overlap, mix and give Bonelli and Fratoianni hope for a transfer of votes. The professor from Philadelphia may also be the leader in the North-West but the decision is still being evaluated.
Then there is the name of at stake Massimiliano Smeriglio, also a former dem who recently said goodbye to Elly Schlein’s party. After the announcement of the candidacy of Mimmo Lucano, former mayor of Riace, there is also talk of the former mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando. A host of former administrators, including the “Martian”, returned to earth.
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– 2024-04-04 01:32:50
