Messina, the electoral race is heating up in the neighborhoods

The electoral race is moving to the neighborhoods. It is there that Marcello Scurria and Federico Basile have begun to engage in a campaign that is just at its dawn. The center-right candidate is ready to kick off a tour in the neighborhoods.

“In recent years our city has had many opportunities: funding, projects, development opportunities. Yet, walking through the neighborhoods, talking to families, to young people, to shopkeepers, the feeling is always the same: the city has remained stagnant. Streets waiting for interventions, forgotten neighborhoods, services that do not improve. Opportunities that could have truly changed the face of the city have instead been wasted. That’s why I decided to start a listening journey in the neighborhoods,” says Marcello Scurria. He announces that he does not want to make showy appearances. “We really want to listen to the citizens and build the future program together with them. I want to meet those who live the city’s problems every day: families, young people, the elderly, shopkeepers, associations. Because change is not announced with slogans: it is built starting from people and neighborhoods.”

A kind of “face to face” with citizens in the same style that Basile has been pursuing for some time and that today saw the former mayor among Villaggio Santo, Bisconte, and Catarratti. “We listened to positive observations and criticisms, because the purpose of these meetings is to be present, to talk with those who live here, and to gather useful insights – said Basile -. Returning periodically to the villages helps to maintain a constant relationship with the territories and to verify with citizens what has been done and what is still needed. Many come to us because they know we are here and that this is an authentic space for dialogue.”