Congressional voting for the PD primaries is on its last day (except for Lazio and Lombardy due to regional elections). The national figure of around 47 thousand votes in 17 thousand seats indicates Stefano Bonaccini in the lead with 48.2%, Elly Schlein with 40.3%, Gianni Cuperlo 7.1% and Paola De Micheli 4.4%. A projection, writes Bidimedia Sondaggi who released it, which is not based on sample circles and “the end result can also be very different than expected”. Not only. The top two candidates will face each other in true two-way primaries, open and implemented not just to members, and anything can happen. A rather alarming signal for Bonaccini, for example, comes from Naples.
Schlein in the Pd circle of San Giovanni a Teduccio, red feud of the capital of Campania, leaves his opponent just one vote: 189 votes for the former vice-president of Emilia Romagna, one for Bonaccini. Tonino Borriello is behind the claim of the candidate, “the man who in 2016 put Matteo Renzi’s secretariat in crisis due to the famous scandal of coins distributed outside the polling stations set up for the primaries in Naples to choose the candidate for mayor”, recalls Il Giornale, which summarizes: “The candidate who wants to reset everything starts with Borriello: mister coins”.
According to many, voting in big cities will ultimately decide. “Elly is the surprise of the first phase, she will win the primaries. As is happening in many Italian cities, Elly also wins in Verona; in the city with 51% of the votes and in the Province with 47.5% the Schlein motion is the most voted. I advise my friend Nardella not to play lottery numbers, because they are of no use to anyone. And then reality hits head on and always comes out. Elly Schlein has already changed the history of congress by contradicting all the predictions and winning in the city of banknotes” , said yesterday Francesco Boccia, senator of the Democratic Party and political coordinator of the Schlein motion in the Congress of the Democratic Party.
Source: IL Tempo
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