"When you are 20 you express and think a lot of things. Then you grow up, you study, you change your mind. I give up my candidacy because the Democratic Party comes first and because this electoral campaign is too important to be polluted in this way ".
Thus the Regional Secretary of the Lucan Democratic Party, Raffaele La Regina, announces the withdrawal of his candidacy as leaders in Basilicata, due to the controversy linked to anti-Semitic sentences written by La Regina himself in a post on Facebook.
In the morning La Regina had commented on rumors of his withdrawal from the candidacy to the next policies ensuring "no step backwards, we are working on the electoral campaign with passion and determination".
ANSA agency
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"Today's newspaper accuses me of denying the existence of the State of Israel, recalling a meme that I casually and superficially re-launched in a private group. In short, it was satire, not a political position. (ANSA)