«In Catania ready to support the Bianco dem as mayor, also open to Cuffaro and Lombardo»- Corriere.it

CATANIA – A question is hovering under Etna. But could a part of the Grilline patrols, in view of the race for mayor of Catania, really mobilize in favor of Enzo Bianco (Pd), 72, former mayor of Catania for 14 years and former interior minister? And would it even be the former undersecretary Giancarlo Cancelleri, for many years the great leader of the M5S in Sicily? Here is the answer of the former warehouse worker from Caltanissetta who moved to Catania, at first tempted by his own candidacy for mayor and now, perhaps, available as deputy: We’ll talk to Enzo. We met several times, we understood that we were in tune, a lot in tune.

Cancelleri, is Bianco therefore your candidate?

Today we could indicate him as the perfect candidate for the progressives, also because he wanted to set himself a mission: to build a ruling class for Catania. Sure, he’s an age. But he puts his experience at the service of a community on its knees to give strength and visibility to a group of young people, with the aim of handing over the city to them in five years.

The progressives, the centre-left, had Emiliano Abramo, president of the Sant’Egidio community, candidate and he burned in a week.

Cross vetoes. Too many stakes and checks….

He looked like the candidate of Pd, +Europe, Left Italy, Green Europe, Forum Civico Catania.


“Not anymore. All the more reason to relaunch the name of Enzo Bianco.

How does your approach begin?


“I launched an appeal to all potential candidates for mayor, those in the progressive area. Inviting them all to take a step back and identify the synthesis candidate. To create a team. And Enzo immediately accepted the invitation”.

Who is launching the appeal to support Bianco?

Center, left, to the progressives.

At the center, in his Catania, there is Raffaele Lombardo, fresh from acquittal in Cassation after 13 years of storm…

And it would be foolish not to talk to Lombardo.


Open dialogue with the former president of the Region that you have so often opposed and beaten?

Look, I’ve been in dialogue with Lombardo for some time. And for this I also suffered a frond within the M5S. Today Lombardo free man, a point of reference in Catania.

Ready to do anything to win?


To beat the right you must not fight the center right, but grab the center and leave the right alone.

It seems that Bianco is also in dialogue with Tot Cuffaro, the other president of the Region who got into trouble, but who was convicted and is now the promoter of a new Christian Democracy after having served a long sentence.


a man who paid his bills on a past filed and resolved. Anyway, he’s not even interested in a candidacy. There is talk of an inclusion of his party within the coalition.

Let’s define this possible coalition.

A moderate area on the civic front.

First goal?


Building the future of Catania. With White. With the young people he is bringing together, whom we are calling together.

Well, young and old…

All those who want to believe in the redemption of a city to be reborn and grow.