"I'm running for mayor."
Fifteen days after making public the decision to leave the priesthood for the love of a woman, the former parish priest of Chiusano SanDomenico, in the province of Avellino, Don Antonio Romano, 54 years old, returns to social media with a long post to officially announce his entry into the field in electoral campaign in the administrative elections of 8 and 9 June which in Irpinia, including Chiusano San Domenico, will involve 41 municipalities.
After having specified that he had suspended himself from the administration of the sacraments and was waiting to be reduced to the lay state, the former priest is preparing to challenge the outgoing mayor of ForzaItalia, Carmine De Angelis.
"An unequal challenge", by his own admission, in which he will move inspired "by the ideals of justice, honesty, freedom".
Romano also delivers his political profile to the less than 2,300 inhabitants of Chiusano San Domenico: "Sovereignist, but non-nationalist; liberal, but not libertarian; globalist, but non-globalist".
In a word, "a voice out of the chorus of political correctness and single thought, which feels partly progressive, but also a little conservative".
To journalists who ask him if, as announced, he will marry the woman with whom he is in love again before or after the June elections, the former parish priest does not give precise dates, but denounces: "the mud machine that has already been set in motion against myself".
Then the invitation to journalists to "spread and defend the truth: if Italy - he concludes - is in this disastrous situation, it is also due to the servility of some of them".
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