Giancarlo Cancelleri is to run as
the candidate of the 5-Star Movement (M5S) for the Sicilian
regional presidency in elections to be held on November 5.
The anti-establishment movement made the announcement
following on-line primaries at an event attended by leader Beppe
Grillo in Palermo.
This is the second time that Cancelleri, 42, will run for the
leadership of the island region after coming third in 2012
elections won by incumbent Rosario Crocetta of the centre left.
He is considered close to the movement's top brass and
especially to Deputy House Speaker Luigi Di Maio, who is tipped
as a possible M5S premier candidate at general elections next
year.
On Sunday Cancelleri, an accountant by training, said his
first move as governor would be to cut regional councillors'
wages.
"We will dismantle the Region, we will give hope to
Sicilians," he said.
"Our calling card to citizens will be the cut in life
annuities and privileges and the reduction in the salaries of
regional councillors," Cancelleri added.
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