The regional elections decreed the triumph of the centre-right, with Francesco Rocca elected president in Lazio and Attilio Fontana confirmed in Lombardy. A disaster for the center-left and the Democratic Party in particular. Worrying trends for Democrats emerge from the analysis of the poll. As seen from the comparison of the large cities of the two regions. If in Milan the Democratic Party obtained an excellent result (24.96 percent, first party in the Milan constituency ahead of the Brothers of Italy with 23.8 percent), in Rome – administered by the center-left – there is a different tune: the dem they were baskets of 20.9 percent, a far cry from the party of Giorgia Meloni who recorded stratospheric 34.3 percent.
The reasons are many, but there is one very significant fact, underlined by Bidimedia Sondaggi: “Of the two big cities that voted yesterday, Milan confirmed the pro-center-left tendency, contrary to Rome. Why this difference? It’s hard to say exactly , but also due to the turnout, a certain failure can be attributed to the current capitoline administration”, says a tweet that reports a recent survey on the evaluation of the administration of Roberto Gualtieri, elected mayor of Rome in 2021. Romans satisfied with the way Roma is administering are only 30 percent, less than one in three (and just 62 percent of those who voted for him in municipal elections).
That said, the other fact is that the Democratic Party in Rome is in danger of no longer being Ztl’s party. In the first and second prefectures, the majority party of Alessio D’Amato’s race in Pisana loses compared to the Brothers of Italy. In the municipality of central Rome, the Democratic Party gets 25.84 percent of the vote, just below the Brothers of Italy, who reach 26.72 percent. In the first municipality, the Third Pole of Calenda and Renzi collected 9.50 percent of the votes. The difference in municipality II is clearer, where Prime Minister Meloni’s party collects 30.79 percent against 23.63 percent for the Democratic Party. Here, too, the Democratic Party’s electoral base is eroded by the 10.88 percent obtained by the Third Pole. Saving the situation for the center-left are the results of the lists. In both municipalities, the center-left candidate D’Amato would have won the dispute over the lists: in the first municipality with 50.64% of the preferences against 39.77 for the center-right and in the second municipality with 49.25% of the votes against 42.76 collected from the lists that supported the new president Francesco Rocca.
Source: IL Tempo
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