The centre-right triumphs on all sides in Lazio’s polls, overcoming all challenges in Velletri, Rocca di Papa, Anagni and Aprilia. After Latina, Fiumicino, Pomezia, Terracina and Ferentino in the first round, the centre-right thus won four other municipalities. In total, it takes home 9 of the 12 large municipalities, bringing the number of elected mayors in the metropolitan city of Rome to four against the three in the centre-left (San Cesareo, Santa Marinella and Valmontone). Historic victory at Velletri with Mayor Ascanio Cascella. A lawyer by profession, supported by the Brothers of Italy, Lega, Forza Italia and Difendere Velletri, he defeated the outgoing mayor Orlando Pocci in the second round, with 53.04% of the preferences and 11,990 votes. For the center-left coalition, supported by the Democratic Party, 5 Star Movement, Greens and Left and three other civic lists, only 46.96% of the votes and 10,615 votes. A difference of 1,375 votes between the two, which also arrived thanks to Cascella’s connection with the candidate for mayor Fausto Servadio, former mayor of the city for two terms from 2008 to 2018, who brought with him a baggage of 2,090 preferences (8 , 21 % in the first round) obtained thanks to the support of the Action/Italia Viva symbol and its civic support list. On the other hand, Pocci was supported by mayoral candidate Romano Favetta who won 3,269 preferences in the first round of elections, obtaining 12.85%.
An intense challenge with thousands of citizens who yesterday afternoon took to the streets and to the City Hall with flags to salute the winner, after years of center-left government. «We smelled victory but we didn’t want to be presumptuous – commented Cascella – Velletri will now shine again after difficult years of bad governance. In the first hundred days we committed to giving programmatic lines to all offices, politics will once again keep this city running. Now we are enjoying the victory, let’s calmly form the government team in the next few hours. I thank Servadio for his support in this challenge, he was an asset to our team, we wanted him for the qualities he demonstrated and not for the electoral number».
The center-right also celebrates in Rocca di Papa, the second municipality in the province of Rome to vote, the victory at the polls of Massimiliano Calcagni elected mayor thanks to 53.81% of the preferences and 3,401 votes, against the challenger De Santis, he was in 46 , 19% with 2,919 votes. Moving to Aprilia, in the province of Latina, an important victory was won by Lanfranco Principi who, supported by Lega, Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Aprilia, Unione Civica, Lista Principi mayor, Aprilia Valore Comune, Alternativa Moderata Apriliana, prevailed with the 52 89% and 13,358 votes, against Luana Caporaso, candidate for mayor with eight civic lists, managed to reach 47.11% with 11,898 votes. A victory, that of Principi, which also comes thanks to the political agreement reached with the candidate for mayor of CambiAprilia, Carmen Porcelli, who obtained 2.49% of the votes in the first round with 736 preferences. Victory of the center right also in Anagni with the candidate of the League Daniele Natalia, reconfirmed mayor of the center of Ciociaria with 57.98% of the votes and 5,852 votes in relation to the challenger Alessandro Cardinali, supported by a series of civic lists that obtained 42, 02% of the votes and 4,242 preferences.
Source: IL Tempo
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