115 candidates in 52 Municipalities. In Monselice, Selvazzano, Cadoneghe and Rubano there is a risk of a run-off

PADUA – It’s elections more beautiful and truthful are those of the mayor of his own capital. Because in addition to political affiliation and programs, we discuss each other house by house, square by square and bonds are just as important as antipathies.

Well it’s 115 i candidates competing for the seats of 52 municipalities, almost there half of the Padua administrations. They are supported by 145 listings in which the army of councilor candidates numbers 1,851 people.
317,028 people live in these territories, 34 percent of the population. And there will be 275,212 voters at the polls (135,903 men and 139,309 women). With a curiosity. Thanks to a law decree ratified in January, the number of first citizens looking for a second or third chance has suddenly increased.
There are 4 challenges in municipalities with a population exceeding fifteen thousand inhabitants, with a possible run-off on Sunday 23 June between the two challengers who will collect the highest number of votes. However, if in the first round one of the candidates obtained 50% plus one of the votes he would be proclaimed mayor in the first round.
The most inviting scenario is Monselice where the Northern League mayor Giorgia Bedin has to face, in addition to the progressive wing with Giannino Scanferla, an opponent within the centre-right: Forza Italia and Fratelli d’Italia have in fact given the green light to the candidacy of the blue provincial coordinator Luca Callegaro, outgoing mayor of Arquà Petrarch. Home derby.

Center-right also divided Selvazzano where the mayor is elected ten months after the commissionership caused by the fall of Giovanna Rossi who reappears with the support of Lega and UDC while Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia have chosen an experienced administrator, Mariano Fuschi.
The centre-left will also propose the necessary candidacy: that of Claudio Piron, an expression of the Democratic Party, and Ornella Sabbion for the environmentalist area. The list of candidates closes with the lawyer Marco Destro, with a civic list.
The other double-round matches are scheduled in the city belt. TO Cadoneghe the outgoing mayor Marco Schiesaro, reduced by the scandal of fines imposed by speed cameras and then cancelled, is looking for an encore but this time with the compact centre-right. He is opposed by Paola Venturato, former councilor of the Schiavo council, with the centre-left forces and the civic leaders Giulia De Campo and Enrico Scacco.

TO They steal However, the administrative experience of the provincial secretary of the Democratic Party Sabrina Doni has ended. So running are the outgoing councilor Chiara Buson, the businesswoman Francesca Dall’Aglio, who left the majority prematurely and the president of Eurointerim Luigi Sposato, already a candidate for mayor of the municipality of Padua, who has also grouped together all the centre-right parties here.
The fight in Camposampiero between the outgoing mayor Katia Maccarrone, seeking a third mandate, and Giovanni Torresin for the centre-right is interesting; the three-way race of San Giorgio in Bosco where the provincial secretary of the League Nicola Pettenuzzo, disheartened a few months ago by part of his majority, is trying to take over the municipality again: he will have as his opponents Fabio Zanfardin, supported by Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia and autonomists, and Alberto Scapin for the center-left.

The debut of Santa Caterina d’Este, a municipality born a few weeks ago from the merger between Carceri and Vighizzolo d’Este will see Tiberio Businaro and Claudio Paluan competing for the mayor’s seat.
In an electoral round characterized by a shortage of candidates in eight municipalities – two in the Upper, six in the Lower – a single list is presented. While the average is two lists per municipality. To be elected as a bloc, the mayor and councilors will have to overcome the quorum threshold which the law sets at 40% plus one of the electors.

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