Searching for votes in the rain is more complicated. The three candidates for the municipal elections of Senorbì are well aware of this and have been looking to the sky for days hoping that the sun will shine at least in the last week before the vote. Meanwhile, the electoral campaign is carried out in bars, on the telephone and with programs full of promises spread via Whatsapp by acquaintances and friends. In between, a few poisonous jokes said in a low voice and small recriminations between longtime adversaries.
The names
Hearing them speak, it seems that Gianni Dessì – a veteran of local politics and former head of the Trexenta Agricultural Inspectorate –, Salvatore Mura (for all Cicci) – 118 driver with a past in the Council and the Executive – and the outgoing mayor Alessandro Pireddu ( who is a municipal secretary by trade) live in different countries: as could be expected, Senorbì is growing for the latter and decadent for the first two. It is inevitable, therefore, that the electoral themes are very different from each other.
Ideas
“In recent years we have seen many services closed and lost our central role in the Trexenta, the hamlets were then abandoned – says Dessì in his home in via Martini -. Of the three of us, the one with the most political experience and who knows the administrative machinery best is undoubtedly me». Even Cicci Mura isn't enthusiastic about the country she lives in: «I believe that the administration should be closer to the citizens, in the social field but also in that of commerce. This is why I have always been personally involved. We need more recreational, playful and socializing spaces for young and old». A completely different story for Alessandro Pireddu: «In recent years, despite the blockade due to Covid, we have done a lot: reopened all the sports facilities that were closed when we arrived, restored the municipal budgets and found the necessary funding to carry out the many projects already scheduled for the next council meeting.
The first 100 days
Deep differences also on priorities. «If I am elected, I will take care of transport immediately, asking for an increase in bus travel towards Cagliari, I will think of health by bringing back the specialist doctors who have removed the clinic and training and school with the opening in Arixi of a professional institute that trains plumbers, beauticians and hairdressers», announces Dessì. «As far as I'm concerned, I would reopen the rest home that has been closed for some time, I would focus on the safety works against the hydrogeological risk of some streets in the hamlet of Arixi and I would have the sewage system built for the sixty families in Sa Carooa which currently do not have one», is Mura's promise. «The first objective is to build the Casa della Salute for which we have two million euros ready, to open the nursery school already financed with 1.3 million and to enhance tourism by focusing on archaeological sites through the territorial development plan for which we it's already 800 thousand euros», are the figures pitted by Pireddu.
The territory
About 150 VAT numbers, thirty companies in the industrial area, numerous farms in the fields around the town: in recent years Senorbì has grown, bringing the number of residents to 4,839, a figure in contrast with the rest of the territory. Here the electoral match of the Trexenta is being played and the three candidates for mayor's band agree on only one thing: all three are sure of winning.
Mariella Careddu
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