Luigi Diego Perifano, a long-standing opposition figure at Benevento's Palazzo Mosti, is being discussed as a possible parliamentary candidate after his return to the Socialist Party. The scenario, reported by Benevento broadcaster NTR24, remains unverified: there is no confirmed candidacy, no confirmed chamber, and no final decision from the party or from Perifano himself.
Opposition at Palazzo Mosti
NTR24 describes Perifano as having led the opposition on Benevento's city council and as continuing to oppose the administration of Clemente Mastella.
Perifano previously ran for mayor of Benevento in 1996 and in 2021. According to the report, a third bid for mayor appears unlikely, with the argument that the Sannio left should instead identify a new and competitive candidate for the next Palazzo Mosti contest.
The signatures question and the Socialists' moves
The possible parliamentary candidacy is linked by NTR24 to a wider national manoeuvre around Italy's electoral rules.
The report describes a proposed workaround for parties without current parliamentary representation that would require collecting more than 400,000 signatures. It says this requirement for smaller parties remained in place after the new electoral law passed the Chamber of Deputies.
In that context, NTR24 reports that deputy Luigi Nave had moved to the Mixed Group of the Chamber and would declare that he represented a political component connected to Progetto Civico and the Socialist Party. The article connects that parliamentary move to a possible parliamentary candidacy for Perifano.
What remains unconfirmed
NTR24 presents the candidacy as politically plausible but unconfirmed. Still unresolved are whether Perifano will actually be selected, whether any candidacy would be for the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate, and what the competent party bodies and Perifano himself will decide.
The reported electoral-law workaround and the parliamentary-group manoeuvre also require confirmation from official parliamentary and party records, and the report does not provide a confirmed timetable or final list of participating parties and candidates.
