The right, which had made the choice to present in the big cities virgin candidates from any political past, appears as the great loser of the ballot.
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“I thank the inhabitants of Trieste with affection for this new wonderful emotion.” By these words all sobriety, the mayor coming out of the main city of the region Friuli-Venezia Julienne, Roberto Dipiazza (Forza Italia, moderate right) , commented on Monday, October 18, at the beginning of the evening, his re-election of a breath, with 51.3% of the vote. Aside from this short message, the Italian right has had nothing to celebrate at the end of the second round of the partial municipal elections held on 17 and 18 October and who have seen the thrust trend of the left observed two weeks Earlier.
The Turin town hall has easily returned to the candidate supported by the left-wing forces, Stefano Lo Russo (59.2% of the vote), who will succeed the Mayor of 5 stars (M5S, antisystem) Chiara Appendino – without the Less chance of success, it had chosen not to be represented. If such a result is not a surprise, with regard to a city historically rooted on the left, it still appears quite unexpected by its magnitude. Just a month ago, the city was cited as a potential target for the right by most political commentators, which expected in any case at a very tight round.
In Rome, the result was just as clear. The former minister of the economy Roberto Gualtieri (Democratic Party, Center left), arrived in second position in the first round, finally carried him on Enrico Micchetti with more than 20 points ahead, after a campaign of Inter-two disastrous tours for the right candidate, accused of complacency towards the extreme right-wing small and more widely nostalgia for fascism.
“Lack of unity” Conservatives
Beyond these results, it is the magnitude of the successes of the left and the general character of the thrust observed between the two towers that strike. In Latina, the second city of Lazio, the candidate presented on the right, Vincenzo Zaccheo, particularly well established locally, had close the election in the first round, with more than 48% of the votes. In the second round, he has painfully reached 45%, ahead of more than 10 points by leaving Damiano Coletta, supported by the left.
“It’s a triumphal victory,” greeted the Secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, early evening, while the magnitude of the thrust of the left was beginning to appear. On the other side of the political spectrum, on the other hand, the main leaders of the right above all sought to minimize the importance of this ballot, which had no national character. Thus, the president of the League (extreme right), Matteo Salvini, he mainly sought to focus on the general thrust of abstention and to incriminate the government’s attitude towards the anti-safety protesters , who would have helped demobilize his electorate.
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