Silvia Salis presents itself: "Genoa wants to change"

“I want to apologize With those who have not managed to enter this morning and came home because there was no place: but all these people here today want to say that the city wants to change “. So Silvia Salis, candidate for the progressive coalition in Genoa, commenting on the Grecale room walks up this morning to the warehouses of the cotton of the ancient port, theater of the official start of its election campaign. Enter, standing up, until at least a thousand people arrive in the front row. The three -minute emotional video with images of Genoa and Salis in the city’s neighborhoods, between daily life and meetings.

The slogan

“It is already tomorrow“The slogan of the descent into the field of the candidate for mayor who enunciated the program, inframed by the applause. Among the 10 more acclaimed points on the infrastructure, started with the end of the” commissioner logic “, to bring back the responsibility of the works to the proposed subjects. Enthusiastic roar of the room at the” No to the cable car of the Lagaccio “and” No to the SkyMetro della Valbisagno “. The work, the reconstruction of an inclusive Genoa, safety and quality of life, widespread culture in neighborhoods, sustainable mobility, services for students and researchers, living, cleaning, rights.

At the candidate

The thirty -nine -year -old (40 years of age will celebrate them in September, editor’s note) ex -punch champion of the hammer and vice -president vicar of the Coni, has often been accused of inexperience by the opponents: “They made them sink The quality of life in Genoa: I believe that, continuing to talk about things that happened ten years ago, to do it with a 39 -year -old civic candidate, it is a tiring exercise of those who have nothing to say – he said to the press – I do not bring the crosses of the left: if they think of continuing to make me answer things happened when I went to the elementary school, I think they are the emblem of the fact that they have very few topics. Today’s ladded room tells us that the city wants to change ”

Democracy

“They think they are In the USA, but this is not the case: they do not dictate my agenda. I arrived and then they chose a deputy mayor woman. It was not enough and then they chose a deputy mayor who was in Rome, Ilaria Cavo. And since he found him, I have to find it too: it doesn’t work like this. I respond to towns and citizens who will vote and my coalition. This is democracy, not to drop people from above. “The candidate for mayor of the progressive field, Silvia Salis, said it, on the sidelines of the start of the election campaign, asked by the reporters who asked her for the choice of her eventual deputy mayor. A question asked because the governor Marco Bucci has stuck to find one, given that his center -right opponent, the candidate for mayor Pietro Piciocchi, had already indicated Ilaria Cavo deputy who will be presented tomorrow at the press.

The intervention

Along the intervention of Silvia Salis, read with passion and also betray a little emotion. “They tried To convince Genoa that only a port where others decide when to leave and when to stay. Our city has been wounded several times by history, time, by the negligence of those who have betrayed it. Yet every time he got up. “Salis invites you to do more:” Genoa resists. Yet resisting is no longer enough. Resist what you do when you are in the middle of the storm. But now we have to do more. We have to go back to navigation, we have to take the fear of our city and bring it to a new horizon “. That’s why the candidate asks for courage for” a Genoa who does not look with nostalgia in the past, but who builds the future with passion “. He replies to those who accuse it of having little experience:” But experience of what? Of a system that has not worked, of administrators who left behind weaker, of a policy that took refuge in habit “. An intervention with no quote, if not that to Roberto Vecchioni: “The future is not a gift, it is a conquest”. So a phrase that arouses a long and warm applause: “We want to be the city that does not let yourself be bought by the usual few. We will not make us buy, it’s true”. On the sidelines then an appeal to vote: “I don’t want to give the trivial message that you have to go to vote because I want you to vote for me. The message is – he explains – that of believing this project because it is new, made by a new experience, by many young people, many women: it is a coalition that is proposing a new idea of ​​the city and I ask you to believe in us”.