“She ran for Sicily because she came here on vacation. Is this normal?” asked her defeated rival Antonio Ferrante from the Democratic Party. Despite cynicism, she appears to share her party leader’s views on halting the conflict in Ukraine, telling Italian news outlet Libero that peace was attainable if “Putin and Zelensky … sit at a table together with mediators such as Italy” . “To avert a humanitarian, economic and geopolitical catastrophe, diplomacy must absolutely prevail,” she said.
