Just a few weeks ago, he had made himself available to the center-right and his party, Forza Italia, to run again as mayor in Milan. Today, Luca Bernardo, who is the group leader of the Azzurri in the Municipality, announces the split with his adhesion to the party of Roberto Vannacci, Futuro Nazionale. The official communication will only be made on Thursday morning at the headquarters of the municipal council groups, with the general connected remotely. But the news was confirmed by regional councilor Luca Ferrazzi, who has already joined Futuro Nazionale along with his colleague Pietro Macconi. “Luca Bernardo’s adhesion – explains Ferrazzi – marks a new step in the growth path of Futuro Nazionale, contributing to strengthening its political presence in the city of Milan and consolidating the movement’s roots in the territory and institutions.”
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The missed invitation to lunch with La Russa
No comment, however, from Bernardo himself. Although sources from Forza Italia reveal that Bernardo had long harbored strong discontent towards the city secretariat. Furthermore, his willingness to run again as mayor a few weeks ago did not receive the support he expected from the Milanese party. “In 2021, mine was a ‘beach candidacy’ – Bernardo had explained when he announced his intention to run for mayor again – with only one month of electoral campaign. I see a crowded field of candidates, so I am ready to run again too.” But on Monday, there was a lunch organized by Ignazio La Russa with the aspiring candidates, and he had not even been invited. A realization that perhaps convinced him even more to change parties.
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The mayoral race in 2021
Futuro Nazionale thus lands, after the Lombardy Region, also in the Municipality of Milan with the very person who had represented the center-right in the 2021 mayoral race, against Giuseppe Sala. Luca Bernardo’s candidacy, a specialist doctor in Pediatrics at Fatebenefratelli hospital, had arrived at the last moment after months of uncertainty from the center-right and had proven to be uncompetitive, so much so that the outgoing mayor Giuseppe Sala had won in the first round.
The controversy over the gun in the hospital
During that election campaign, Bernardo found himself at the center of controversy after the regional councilor of +Europa, Michele Usuelli, reported that he, head of Pediatrics at Fatebenefratelli hospital, goes to the ward armed. “I have never carried the gun in the ward among children – he defended himself -. If I stay in the hospital at night, since I have been threatened, I have happened to carry it, but never in the ward, nor will it ever happen.”
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