Prato administrative elections 2024: everything is ready for the municipal elections which will be merged for the first round of the European elections and the regional ones in Piedmont as already happened five years ago for a sort of election day.
Having now almost reached the end of his second mandate, the current mayor Matteo Biffoni will not be able to run again in the 2024 local elections, with the Democratic Party having decided to focus on Ilaria Bugetti.
The center-right has chosen Gianni Cenni to try to wrest Prato from the Democratic Party, with the third party having instead nominated itself Mario Daneri. The entrepreneur is also in the field Jonathan Targetti, Mirko Castellani for the Italian Communist Party e Paola Battagliari for Alternativa Beni Comuni-Rifondazione Comunista.
Here is a guide to the Prato 2024 administrative elections with all the at your placeThe timetables of the seats, who are the candidates mayor, the lists in their support and how to vote according to the dictates of electoral law.
Prato 2024 administrative elections: dates and times
The Prato 2024 administrative elections will be held on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June regarding the first round. As mentioned, at the same time we will also vote for the European elections and in Piedmont for the regional elections.
These are the timetables opening and closing of polls for the 2024 local elections.
- Saturday 8th: from 3pm to 11pm
- Sunday 9th: from 7am to 11pm
The counting of votes of the first round of the local elections will begin at 2pm on Monday 10th June.
The possible turn of ballot for the local elections it will be held on Sunday 23 June from 7am to 11pm and on Monday 24 June from 7am to 3pm.
How to vote in the local elections in Prato
For elect the mayor and, at the same time, the town Councilthe voter in the local elections has three voting options:
- put an X on the symbol of the list, thus also assigning the vote to the candidate for Mayor;
- put an X only on the name of the aspiring mayor (in this case no vote will be assigned to the list);
- put an X on the list and write the surname of the councilor candidate you prefer.
In local elections, split voting is permitted: it means that the voter can cross out the name of the mayoral candidate he prefers and also put an X on a list that supports a different candidate.
In municipalities with over 15,000 inhabitants it is also possible to assign the double gender preference: just write the surnames of the two candidates of different sexes belonging to the same list.
The electoral law
There electoral law of local elections in Italy it is majority-based when it comes to the election of the mayor, while the distribution of councilors takes place in a proportional manner.
Being Lawn a municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants, if no candidate in the first round obtains an absolute majority then a ballot between the two most voted. If there is a perfect head-to-head tie, the oldest candidate will be elected mayor.
To guarantee the formation of a solid majority and consequently substantial governability, the winning mayoral candidate will be added to the lists linked to the candidate awarded 60% of the seats; the remaining seats on the Council will then be assigned to the other lists in a proportional manner through the “D’Hondt method”.
When the seats are divided, the total number of seats will be elected 32 councilors excluding the mayor, all lists and groups of lists of candidates who have passed the threshold will be admitted barrier threshold 3% of valid votes.
Candidates and lists
In total they are six candidates for mayor running in the Prato 2024 local elections: here’s who they are and which lists they support. Simona Casadei and Emilio Paradiso did not reach the minimum number of signatures needed to be part of the match.
| Candidates | Lists | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Paola Battagliari | Alternative Common Goods-Communist Refoundation | / |
| Ilaria Bugetti | Pd, M5s, +Europa, Sinistra Unita Prato, Ilaria Bugetti – La Forza del Noi, This is Prato | / |
| Mirko Castellani | Italian Communist Party | / |
| Gianni Cenni | FdI, Lega, Forza Italia, Gianni Cenni mayor, Silli with Prato | / |
| Mario Daneri | Prato Worth it | / |
| Jonathan Targetti | Targettopoli | / |
The city of Lawn it has always been considered a sort of fortress of the left and, even during the 2024 administrative elections, the Democratic Party aims to maintain a dominance that has essentially lasted since 1946 with the exception of the five-year period led by Roberto Cennai between 2009 and 2014.
After ten years of Biffoni’s administration, the Democratic Party chose the regional councilor as its candidate Ilaria Bugetti which will also be supported by the 5 Star Movement.
The so-called third pole will run separate from the centre-left: Italia Viva, Azione and the Socialist Party will in fact support the engineer Mario Daneri. The left is also divided: Paola Battagliari she is the candidate of Alternativa Beni Comuni e Mirko Castellani of the Italian Communist Party.
In the center-right, the mayoral candidate of the coalition who will be the lawyer Gianni Cenni for some time in the Fratelli d’Italia area, while the great news of these administrative elections in Prato is represented Jonathan Targettithe entrepreneur who has been carrying out a sort of opposition to the Biffoni administration on social media for some time.
