Polls open on Saturday from 3pm for the renewal of the European Parliament. Voting will also be possible on Sunday from 7am to 11pm. This is the tenth international election after the first which was held 45 years ago, in 1979.
The in-depth analysis: The history of the European elections in the province of Arezzo. All results
The pink ballot, in 26 municipalities in the province of Arezzo, will also be accompanied by the blue ballot for administrative elections, for the renewal of mayors and city councils. Among these there are two administrations with over 15 thousand inhabitants, Cortona and San Giovanni Valdarno, where the rules of separate voting apply and where it is highly probable that a run-off will be needed to establish the next mayor.
How to vote for the European elections
How do you vote for the European elections? The rules on how to vote are the same for each constituency. Just mark an They must all be of the same political force. Attention to gender: if two or three preferences are expressed, they must be for candidates of a different sex. Otherwise only the first preference will be considered valid. Separate voting is not possible: it means that the candidates for whom a preference is expressed must be part of the same voted list and which will be available for consultation outside the section.
180 candidates in 12 lists, four are from Arezzo
In the electoral manifesto that the people of Arezzo will be able to view before entering the booth (and which we attach below) there are 12 lists headed by the symbols of the parties, each list contains 15 names for a total of 180 candidates for the European Parliament. Of these, four are from the province of Arezzo. The mayor of the capital Alessandro Ghinelli which is included in the list of Forza Italia – Noi Moderati, Sergio DeCaprio, better known as Capitano Ultimo who ran with Cateno De Luca’s Libertà list, then there is Francesco Cappelletti the 31-year-old from Casentino who presents himself with the United States of Europe list (LibDem share) which unites various forces: Italia Viva and +Europa, but also LibDem, Psi, Radicali and L’ItaliaC’è. Then there is the lawyer Luciano Spigliantiniprovincial secretary of Arezzo of the Italian Republican Party, included in the PRI quota in the list of the Central Italy constituency of Action, the party founded by Carlo Calenda.
Consult here: manifesto_european_elections_2024_circuscr. 3
The oldest is 110 years old and 3 are newly 18 year olds. The curiosities of the vote in Arezzo
There will be 75,780 people from Arezzo, of which 36,281 males and 39,499 females, voting on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June. In Arezzo we will vote exclusively for the European Parliament and therefore only one ballot will be delivered. Compared to the last round, the 2022 policies, there was an increase of 2,244 achieved thanks to 1,302 males and 942 females who have become adults in the meantime.
We must then add the community residents in Arezzo who have asked a specific question to vote for the Italian representatives in the European Parliament: there are 188 in total of which 35 males and 153 females.
The youngest voters, 3, turn 18 precisely in the ninetieth minute, or rather in recovery: although they become adults on Sunday, they will in fact also be able to vote on Saturday, practically at 17 years and 364 days. The oldest voter in years, however, has some 110. In quantitative terms, the largest section is section 8 at the former Cadorna barracks, with 1,288 voters of which 615 males and 673 females, which returns to the lead after being overtaken in 2022 by section 92 at the elementary school in via Benedetto Croce. To find the least numerous one, as per tradition, it is necessary to go up to Santa Maria alla Rassinata: it is number 85 with 57 voters, of which 29 males and 28 females.
There are 720 members of the European Parliament elected in the 27 EU countries, fewer than in the past due to Brexit but a slight increase compared to 2019 when there were 705. They are divided on the basis of two criteria: population of each state and minimum level of representation. They range from 6 in Malta, Cyprus and Luxembourg to 96 in Germany, followed by France, 81, and Italy, 76.
