Elections, Viminale updates seats after errors: what has changed

Umberto Bossi does not leave Parliament. The historic exclusion of Senatur, which seemed certain after the first count of seats, is negated by the recount imposed by the National Electoral Central Office of the Court of Cassation. This gives indications to the Ministry of the Interior to proceed with the updating of the proportional distribution of seats in the Chamber of Deputies in some multi-member circles. On the contrary, “data on the total number of seats allocated, at national level, to all coalitions and lists of the Chamber of Deputies, also for single-member constituencies, remain unchanged, as well as the distribution of seats for the Senate of the Republic”, explains the Ministry of the Interior, which publishes the names of the newly elected on its website.

Bossi’s case is certainly the most striking. The “error” in Varese’s college was announced by Northern League senator Roberto Calderoli and later confirmed by the website Viminale. “How many words in the wind”, comments Carroccio leader Matteo Salvini, who also picks up the election of party treasurer Giulio Centemero in Bergamo’s multi-member cabinet. But the reorganization of seats affects many other constituencies from north to south and also suffers from the so-called ‘pinball effect’, which causes new candidates to replace those on the same list elected in other constituencies.

At the expense, among others, is Lucia Annibali, a deputy who left Italy alive and a lawyer who has become a symbol of the fight against violence against women: candidate at the Tuscany 03 school for the third pole, loses her seat in favor of Pd candidate Marco Simiani . In Molise, on the other hand, the election of Caterina Cerroni from the Democratic Party, which was initially awarded the victory, skips: the national president of the young dem, among the under-35 leaders sought by secretary Enrico Letta, will give the seat to Elisabetta Lancellotta , candidate of the Brothers of Italy. Francesco Emilio Borrelli from the Aliança da Esquerda Verde (Green Left Alliance) enters Campania in place of Guido Milanese (FI).

News also at Lazio 1, where Marianna Madia, second on the list after Nicola Zingaretti, is now elected. The former minister of public service, however, also wins the Lazio 2 college where, by regulation, his seat will take off because the Democratic Party has won fewer votes. Therefore, Andrea Casu, secretary of the Democratic Party of Rome, must be elected. On the other hand, a seat passes from the Democratic Party to the 5 Star Movement in Calabria, where the election of outgoing deputy Enza Bruno Bossio in favor of M5S candidate Riccardo Tucci jumps.

The image of elected representatives also changes in Umbria’s multi-member college: Emma Pavanelli of M5S and Catia Polidori of FI would respectively replace Pierluigi Spinelli (Pd) and Chiara La Porta (FdI). In the constituency of Abruzzo, the candidate for Action in the Chamber’s plurinominal, Giulio Sottanelli, wins the seat initially allocated to Stefania Di Padova, candidate for second place on the Democratic Party’s list. He criticizes the position of + Europa, which in recent days had publicly asked for the recount of votes: “The news of these last hours, with the ballet of those elected announced and then corrected by the Ministry of the Interior”, observes the coordinator of the secretary Giordano Masini , “confirms our reservations and our doubts about what is happening around the vote count”.