Administrative elections, center right to vote to win again

The nomination is scheduled for next Sunday and Monday, May 28 and 29, with the second round of administrative elections in 41 municipalities, seven of which are capitals. An important test, for center-right and center-left, and for individual political forces. There are three, in particular, the cities highlighted before the vote: they are Ancona, Pisa and Vicenza. The result is eagerly awaited in the capital of the Marche region, which for the past thirty years has always been led by centre-left administrations: here the centre-right candidate, Daniele Silvetti, has 45.1% of the votes obtained in the first round, compared the outgoing vice mayor, Ida Simonella, with 41.3% of the preferences of the center-left opponent, and with the M5s that will allow freedom of vote. In Pisa, then, the outgoing mayor Michele Conti, an exponent of the center-right, seeks reconfirmation, strong by 49.9% nine days ago, when by a handful of votes, 15 to be precise, he lost the electoral first shot , and with the challenger Paolo Martinelli, supported by the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement, who stopped at 41.1%. The centre-right disputed many ballots, so much so that if Conti did not win in the end, the appeal to the Regional Administrative Court would already be ready.

In Vicenza, Democratic Party candidate Giacomo Possamai is in the lead with 46.2% of the vote, against 44.1% for centre-right rival and outgoing mayor Francesco Rucco. As for the other four provincial capitals, uncertainty reigns absolute in Siena, where the centre-right candidate, Nicoletta Fabio, with 30.5% of the preferences in the first round, and the centre-left candidate, Anna Ferretti, with 28, 7%. The difference between the two candidates is only 400 votes and the civic lists can be decisive for the final result. The only certainty is that the next mayor of the Tuscan city will be a woman. In Massa, the outgoing mayor, Francesco Persiani, supported by Forza Italia, Lega and civic lists, came out ahead, with 35.4% of the votes won in the first round, against 30% for the centre-left candidate, Enzo Romolo Ricci.

Center-left who will not, however, be able to speak in Terni, where Orlando Masselli is running for mayor, supported by all the acronyms of the center-right, who obtained 35.8% of the votes, and the national coordinator of Alternativa Popolare, in addition to from the owner of Ternana football, Stefano Bandecchi, reinforced by the support of civic lists, with 28.1%. In Brindisi, the centre-right candidate, Giuseppe Marchionna, starts with 44% of the preferences, against 33.3% of his opponent, Roberto Fusco, supported by the Democratic Party and the 5 Stelle Movement. On the next 28 and 29 May, space for the first round in 39 municipalities in Sardinia, including no provincial capitals, and in 128 municipalities in Sicily, of which four provincial capitals: we are talking about Catania, Ragusa, Syracuse and Trapani. And precisely in Catania, the day after tomorrow, Friday, May 26, an electoral initiative will take place that will bring together Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani, in support of the candidate for mayor, Enrico Trantino. In the first round, the centre-right won in Imperia, Latina, Sondrio and Treviso, that is, in four of the thirteen provincial capitals voted on, while the centre-left won in Brescia and Teramo.

Source: IL Tempo

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