Democratic Party primary in Naples, Valente announces the victory: “The city looks ahead” – The Messenger

Valeria Valente will be the candidate of the center in spring administrative in Naples. when consultations were canceled for a number of irregularities, the young deputy coordinator in Campania “Remaking Italy”, close to President Pd Matteo Orfini in most attended city primary, after the bad parenthesis of 2011, he beat her ” political father “, Antonio Bassolino, former mayor of Naples, twice President of the Campania Region and former Minister of Labour.

Valente will challenge the incumbent mayor, Luigi de Magistris, the candidate of the center, Gianni Lettieri, and the candidate of five Stars, whose name is not known yet. Outside the institutional politics for five years, at age 69 Bassolino found the strength and determination to return to the field; He wanted the primaries from the beginning, sought votes and canvassing the vote, he fought to the end in a head to head with her pupil who then prevailed. “Napoli has chosen to look ahead with a new ruling class”, is the policy synthesis with which Valente announced his victory in an election committee which gathered the big names of the party who have supported on its way to the nomination . Valente could have run for municipal bypassing the primary coalition – as she recalled – but accepted the check of the area vote because his was a strong candidate in Naples and not in Rome. So when, a result acquired, comes out of her room in the election committee to announce the victory, immediately thanked “all citizens” and says that now have to be “all together in the center to return to the city government.” Bassolino immediately collects the invitation. “We continue the battle for Napoli,” were his first words. Bassolino admits defeat and, as a politician sailed, explains that “have made a contribution to the battle for participation, with passion and determination,” with all his might. And he is right, and see what were the consultations for Naples and for the Democratic Party who had been in the capital of Campania one of the greatest suffering in the primary points.

“The first winners of these primaries are the tens of thousands of voters who have shown how the instrument of the primary is now established itself as a good political practice, “said the regional secretary of the Democratic Party, Assunta Tartaglione, dispelling the concerns of the vigil for possible fraud and irregularities. Concerns which led the party to make an App antibrogli prepare and distribute to the presidents of all the seats in a dedicated tablet connected with a database containing the names of voters to avert the risk of duplication of voting. The tablet did not work much, but perhaps there was no need. The iconic image of these primary Naples, in fact, is not so much the flop of the tablet but the one of the nuns who voted just in the same seat of Valente. “The vote is always a civic duty, even if it is primary,” was the comment of “democrat sisters” as they renamed to seat the two sisters whose photos – hope the Democratic Party – will forget the image of Chinese lined up in front of polling stations that five years ago led to the cancellation of the primaries of Naples.