Primary in Puglia, Michele Emiliano wins with the 70%: Now united to defend the Region.

Michele Emiliano, will be the candidate of the centre-left in the upcoming regional elections in puglia. As expected, the Governor was the clear winner, with 70 percent of the preferences, the competition of the regional director Fabiano Amati (14,3); the former mep and regional councillor, Elena Gentile (12.1) and the sociologist, the candidate of the civic left, Leo Palmisano (3,1). The real match was, however, on the numbers of voters: participated in 80 thousand, according to estimates by the regional secretary of the Pd, Marco Lacarra, less compared to the primary that crowned Nicola Zingaretti national secretary, but that's still not bad compared to the expectations. Many have invited him to defect to the polls, starting from Italy Alive, "but instead it was a celebration of democracy, of the unexpected," said Lacarra.

"The cold and the rain haven't stopped people from puglia, have not stopped the coalition of Puglia, which is the name that our coalition , our alliance has today," said Emiliano. "We are in puglia and we are united in the participatory democracy through the primary with thousands and thousands of citizens who have put on a wonderful day of democracy once again."

Emiliano has directed "the first thanks to the apulian. This wonderful people - she said - has taught me to be the mayor and is teaching me to be the president of the Region. I think that here there is something different from the rest of the world. The apulian people are different, have gone to vote on 12 January has started well to rain today in the afternoon. Now we can say, the result was pretty obvious, and then why they went to vote? More that in order to win someone have done this to bear witness to all of us, have done an act of witness. Are out of the house to say 'I'm here'. One thing that does not happen anywhere else. This thing is beautiful and is a poem of the policy that must be preserved".

"The second thank you goes to the volunteers, and the third to Leonardo Palmisano, Elena Gentile, and Fabiano Amati. I think that they - he concluded - will make for a better me, for all the criticism that I have done during this primary campaign, I listened with great attention".

"tomorrow the battle begins in Apulia" explains Emiliano. "I remember the battle of britain in which someone attempted to take England. I think that Puglia no one can take, the Puglia region is to be respected, needs to be defended, we did some perhaps even making mistakes because we have limits, we are human. From tomorrow you begin to write the program. I will have to continue to make the president of the Region and is, therefore, my election campaign will be, above all continue to work for the Puglia and building, along with the other the program for the next 5 years". Emiliano also trace the boundaries of the coalition. "We have tried so much regret and so much pain because I couldn't understand why someone refuses to participate, but now it's all passed. What is certain is that we have a coalition that is defined by those who have signed the covenant for the primary. If it were to affect someone if they speak".

do Not agree to the first of the defeated, Fabiano Amati. "Now we need to keep a large coalition," he said, And involve those who have not participated because the data on turnout has a meaning that is impressive, he adds, then all the work is to avoid that the right can win" © Reproduction reserved