Elections, Prestigiacomo: «I lost but I don’t feel rejected. I’ll stay on the pitch for the party: a new story “

I have to surrender to the numbers. My seat not taken. I lost, but I don’t feel rejected, if anything I feel grown up. This is how the former minister Stefania Prestigiacomo, who was not elected to the Senate, unleashes herself on Facebook. I won 107,000,000 votes for Forza Italia in the multi-member boarding school in eastern Sicily, 3,000 fewer than the votes of the boarding school in western Sicily where the seat was taken. In my constituency the consensus of Cateno De Luca from Messina was decisive, who in eastern Sicily alone took 17% of the votes. In western Sicily, 7%. Too bad so many completely useless votes, thrown away. Votes against more than votes to build. And then there was the demagogic return of the Cinquestelle, explains Prestigiacomo. I think I did my duty – she continued – but it was not enough and obviously I am very sorry that the seat for which I fought a tenacious political battle did not take place. Tiring but a beautiful effort. Today I want to thank first of all the supporters and militants of Forza Italia Syracuse, Catania, Messina, Enna and Ragusa, with whom I lived the most beautiful and difficult election campaign that gave me so much humanity and political passion. Today a new story begins, he concludes, I remain in the field, at the service of the only party in which I played, a party that has given me so much and to which I have given so much and with which I intend to continue my commitment.