Elections, Donzelli and Tuscany: "Tomasi is already campaigning. Housing, Italians first."
Florence, August 3, 2025 – Giovanni Donzelli, MP and head of organization for Fdi: It's August, where are you?
"Traveling around Italy to present the FdI's summer campaign on the security and legality decree. It's our militant August."
Aren't you going on vacation?
“A few days with the family.”
Regional elections in Tuscany. There's no official investiture, but is Alessandro Tomasi, mayor of Pistoia, the center-right candidate? Are his allies holding back?
Alessandro Tomasi is already campaigning; he's listened to the local communities, the social fabric, and the various sectors. We're working on the program with our allies.
Type?
"Less bureaucracy, more infrastructure, and more scope for job creators. And then there's the defense of Tuscans. We believe we need a cap on immigrants in public housing. No more ghettos, otherwise we'll end up in the suburbs."
Tomasi is in the running, then.
“The time for formality will come, but the left seems to be at sea.”
Giani bis, it's almost done...
"They haven't made a decision on Giani yet, and it's incredible: they've been in office for five years and they don't know if he's a good fit. He's out of time: in the age of artificial intelligence, he's yet to discover the fax machine. Tuscany needs someone to make it run."
Are you referring to the short-circuit in the center-left in July?
"It's the lack of a common people and a common program. Alliances aren't made with tape; if the only glue is power, this is what happens. They don't have the same ideas about the airport, infrastructure, or development. Forcefully joining forces against Meloni is a form of power-sharing for the sake of power. And then the left has transparency issues, with judicial investigations and shady issues."
The Prato case.
"Not only that. Otherwise, it looks like Bugetti will appear out of nowhere and do some mischief. Meanwhile, there's been the Keu case, with political responsibilities yet to be ascertained and doubts about the transparency of the financing of the Florence election campaign. In Prato, the issue isn't Bugetti's brief tenure at the City Council, but rather his time as a regional councilor in the majority."
Do you have a candidate in Prato?
“We will confront the allies.”
What effect did it have on you when you read the wiretaps with your candidate at the time, Gianni Cenni, who was close to Freemasonry ?
"No one. These references shouldn't be in wiretaps or in the newspapers. Cenni has never been investigated and has always behaved well. However, if I have the chance, I'll ask him. Prato's problem isn't membership in an association, but whether the left was acting in the public interest or in the interest of others."
You were clear about Freemasonry.
“In Siena, we replaced a mayoral candidate who had prioritized his Freemasonry membership within 24 hours.”
Is it possible that you rule in Italy and can't count in Tuscany?
"Actually, out of ten provincial capitals, we govern seven. We'll see about the regional elections, and we'll talk about it later, but one thing's for sure: where we governed, we won again."
Are you worried about this large field that, although shaky, could have the numbers to win?
“If we were to do mathematics instead of politics, we too would be making a broad field instead of the revolution we are making.”
With an alliance shifted to the left, will you recover votes in the center?
"I don't believe so much in the geographical locations of politics, but in our ideas, which are linear: in the coalition, we will all say the same thing, and this will lead the non-ideological citizen to choose those who say concrete things."
Pergola rejected. The government accused of political retaliation against red Florence...
"The commission is a technical one. If the left were less arrogant and more aware of the need to address the rules and think about the city's best interests, they would have saved the Pergola. There are crazy decisions like merging it with the Rifredi club, a politically dictated burden that makes it difficult to explain that it's a national theater."
Is it Massini's fault or the mayor's?
"It's not my place to judge a worthy artist, even if he has different ideas than mine. It seems clear to me that the administration has used the Pergola as a projectile in its ideological war against the government. Florence has been weakened, not the government."
The issue of financing remains.
We'll ensure the funds reach Pergola, despite inadequate and shambolic management, to minimize the damage. We've already demonstrated our love for Florence by providing the €55 million for the suburbs, exactly what Florence needed. At this point, they have no excuses for the stadium: they need to tell the city what they want to do. And we'll be monitoring it.
There's a security problem in Florence. Public order is the government's responsibility. Do you feel guilty?
"Public order and insecurity depend on many factors, such as illegal immigration. More officers have arrived in Florence and the surrounding province than requested."
CPR on standby or aborted?
"There will be, it's necessary. If there are illegal immigrants committing crimes, we'll lock them up until they're repatriated."
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