If the electoral rounds now concern (unfortunately) fewer and fewer voters, perhaps the exception is represented by the administrative rounds. The choice of the mayor warms hearts, either because of the proximity of the role, or because following each mayoral candidate there are hosts of candidates for the city council who are measured on preferences, the “municipal elections” involve like no other appointment.
Civitavecchia is no exception, the only municipality voting in this “European” round in the north of the province of Rome.
Six candidates in the running, in strict alphabetical order: Enzo D’Antò, Massimiliano Grasso, Roberta Galletta, Vittorio Petrelli, Marco Piendibene and Paolo Poletti.
Galletta and Petrelli are purely civic candidates (even if both have a past in the centre-left: Galletta was secretaries of the PD and councilor in a centre-left council and Petrelli was part of some centre-left coalitions in the past), the others all refer to national players (in addition to the support of Civic lists): D’Antò Movimento 5 Stelle and Unione Popolare, Grasso Lega and Fratelli d’Italia, Piendibene PD and Alleanza Verdi Sinistra, Poletti Forza Italia and Italia Viva.
The candidate of Lega e Fratelli d’Italia, Grasso, can count on the one hand on the tailwind of the right at a national level, on the other the fact that the outgoing council is centre-right, as well as six supporting lists with electorally weight, constitute a good point of comparison for the first round, uncertainties come from the fact that his candidacy emerged from a very long and apparently bitter internal confrontation within the centre-right which even led to the non-renomination of the outgoing mayor in the League, the lawyer Ernesto Tedesco, the prerogative of the publisher and employee of the port authority Grasso. Marco Piendibene, historic face of the city centre-left, can count on the support of the centre-left forces which in Civitavecchia usually means a certain level of competitiveness (even in the event of defeat, like last time, the candidate Carlo Tarantino reached the run-off ) but it is worth noting Italia Viva’s choice to support Paolo Poletti, together with Forza Italia, an unknown for the centre-left and a plus for the general, who therefore focuses on the area (always decisive in Italy, and Civitavecchia is no exception) moderate. Enzo D’Antò can count on the support of the 5 Star Movement, (which have always achieved good results in Civitavecchia, even winning the elections in 2014) his political house, and of Civitavecchia Popolare (the Civitavecchia group of the Unione Popolare). Roberta Galletta counts on the support of a civic list, she is a well-known face in the city for her cultural commitment to valorising the transversally appreciated territory, just as the candidacy of Vittorio Petrelli (also supported by a civic list) is rooted in the world of civicism and even though it does not rely on national symbols, it can represent a surprise.
A very jagged panorama, therefore, an electoral campaign full of protagonists and unknowns, now, as always, the last word to the voters, with the hope (which applies to every election in every place) that there will be as many of them as possible.
L’agon editorial team
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