Pesaro, 1 June 2024 – The PD has a fort to defend, the last remaining among the provincial capitals of the Marche. The centre-right instead he has in front of himthe most difficult task to accomplish, well beyond the conquest of Ancona. This is why the Pesaro municipal elections are a turning point not only for Rossini’s city called to elect Matteo Ricci’s successor, someone who – like it or not – has left a mark on the city. I am one also a regional hubto the point of pushing the Democratic Party to put aside the arguments – which will return, rest assured – to make an upward agreement on the candidacy of Andrea Biancani, who in the last regional elections managed to achieve ten thousand preferences: a champion of electoral campaigns. Not everyone on the center-left thinks he is the best possible mayor. But no one doubts that he is the best man to become mayor. Yet some difficulties emerged a few evenings ago during one of the confrontations with the challengers: he found himself in difficulty having to act as the defender of the Ricci administration that came under fire, and – a bad sign – he didn’t even have a claque to support him.
He has gone Better, in this circumstance, Marco Lanzi, former deputy police commissioner and provincial secretary of SIULP, the civic candidate that the center-right chose after a series of crossed vetoes. It is up to him, therefore, to lead a coalition that will have to try to make better use of the national wind in favor compared to five years ago, when with the League over 30% in the European elections, Ricci still managed to win with 57%. In 2019, the center-right then led by Nicola Baiocchi (Fratelli d’Italia, now regional councilor) stopped at 29.90%: this is enough to make it clear that Lanzi must do a real feat.
Outside the main coalitions, there are two lists: a completely civic one led by the lawyer Pia Perricci and the other by the hotelier Fabrizio Oliva (also supported by +Europa). Barring sensational exploits, it is at least unlikely that, put together, they will come close to the 12% accumulated in 2019 by the medium-small lists outside the two poles (then there were the Five Star Movement running alone, now they are in coalition with the centre-left) .
Consequence: it is likely that the vote will be polarized by the center-left and the center-right, who present themselves with the widest possible camps. On the one hand, the Pd, the Five Star Movement, the Greens-Left and four important civic lists; on the other Fratelli d’Italia, Lega, Forza Italia, three civics and an agreement with Action. The best formations for a fort to defend and for the most difficult undertaking.
