There are some certainties in politics that are not affected by events. One of them is the centre-left, which in the capital calls itself the “Ztl party”. Despite the tsunami of the center-right, or rather the Brothers of Italy, which is the first party in all 15 Roman municipalities, the dem-led coalition manages to conquer four municipalities: the I and the II, that is, districts like the historic center, Monti, Prati, Parioli. For years, the “good” quarters of the capital have become an impregnable fortress. Even with the Grillina avalanche of 2016, these two areas of “capital power” remained firmly in the hands of the Democratic Party, which, however, this time needed the “help” of Azione di Calenda to bring the center-left to these two small parliaments respectively 50.64% against 39.77 of the center right in the “Ztl” neighborhoods and 49.25% against 42.76 in Parioli.
Victory also in Cinecittà, another historic stronghold of the reds where the result is in favor of the center-left with 49.62% of the votes against 37.98 for the center-right. And again, to complete the small, and far from comforting, result of the implantation of the XII Municipality in support of Alessio D’Amato, districts like Monterverde and Colli Portuensi raise the center-left to 47.36% against the 40.93 of their opponents . With regard to the third in the game, the Five Star Movement registers a decrease practically everywhere but obtains its best result, 14.55% in Municipality X, namely Ostia, Acilia, Infernetto. Everything else is center right. Record result in Tor Bella Monaca, the only parliament of the 15 Romans led by the FdI and where the coalition supporting the new governor Francesco Rocca obtained 59.65% and Meloni’s party 42%.
Practically a referendum.
It should be noted that, since the last September policies, the centre-right is slowly “reconquering” the northern part of Rome.
XIV and XV Municipio, namely Aurélio, Cássia and Flaminia rise to second and third place on the podium of the most voted in the center-right with 53.29 and 50.35% of the votes obtained.
A map of the vote in the city that registers, on the one hand, the consolidation of territorial consensus, increasingly rooted in some neighborhoods for both the center-right and the center-left, on the other hand, a flow of voters that can be “reconquered” . Two poles that, although in contraction, still circulate on average 7/10% throughout the territory: Third Pole of Action and Italia Viva and Cinque Stelle Movement. The latter, it should be noted, absorbed most of the consensus of the Capitoline left, which in fact came out in pieces from these regionals. Renzi and Calenda’s party presents itself as a moderate subject and very close to the results obtained by Forza Italia. That all this is enough to recreate alternative “third poles” to a bipolarity that, on the contrary, seems increasingly clear, is too early to say. Certainly two political subjects for decades decisive in the Capital as the center and the left, today they appear more blurred than ever before a political scenario that seems to point to other horizons.
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
