Politics
We could call it “D-Day”, citing, with the necessary distinctions in terms of substance and context, the historical definition attributed to the event that 80 years ago changed the fate of World War II. We are referring to the longest day, today, relating to the administrative elections to elect the next mayor of the city and the 24 representatives of the city council. Mazara del Vallo is among the 37 Sicilian municipalities and among the 4 municipalities in the province of Trapani called to vote, at the same time as the European elections scheduled for Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June. There are three mayoral candidates, expressions of composite coalitions from a political point of view: the current mayor Salvatore Quinci (supported by five lists: “Brothers of Italy”, “Libertà”, “Political Observatory”, “Political Participation” and “Salvatore Quinci Mayor”); the lawyer
Vita Ippolito (supported by five lists: “Forza Italia”, “Christian Democracy”, “MPA-La Forza dei Fatti”, “Energia Popolare-Energia Popolare” and “Più Vita per Mazara”); and the already twice mayor (from 2009 to 2019) the Hon. Nicola Cristaldi (supported by four lists: “Futurists”, “Pride and Future”, “Cristaldi Mayor” and “Democratic Voices”). There are a total of 329 candidates for the 24 positions in the highest civic assembly in Mazara. We are waiting for the times for the holding of the final rallies of the mayoral candidates to be decided today at 11am through a draw, all three of whom would have chosen to make the final appeal to the voters starting from 10.30pm; the rallies, for which Piazza della Repubblica and Piazza Mokarta are foreseen, will normally have a maximum duration of one hour and with an interval between them of no less than 15 minutes.
Then from midnight the so-called “electoral silence” will begin, hoping that good civic sense will prevail…. Today is therefore the last day of electioneering. We remind you that the mayoral candidate who obtains 40% + 1 of the preferences is elected. If this threshold is not reached, a run-off is scheduled (after two weeks, on 23 and 24 June) between the two aspiring mayors who received the most votes. If two candidates exceed the same threshold in the first round, the one with the most votes wins.
There are 43,171 Mazara voters entitled to vote for the mayoral and municipal council elections which will be held in Mazara del Vallo on 8 and 9 June. The total number of voters at the polls is made up of 21205 males and 21966 females. A decrease compared to the 2019 administrative elections when there were 43,567 voters. Compared to the local elections, the data for the European elections which will be held at the same time on 8 and 9 June have changed. Out of 40,936 voters registered on the ordinary lists, there are 36 non-resident students who have decided to exercise their right to vote in the municipality of temporary domicile (if in Sicily or Sardinia) or in the special polling stations specifically established in the other regions.
The total number of voters at the polling stations in Mazara del Vallo for the European elections is therefore reduced to 40,900 voters, of which 19,915 males and 20,985 females. Please remember that in the 50 seats of Mazara del Vallo. as in the rest of the country, the polls will be open on Saturday 8 June, from 3pm to 11pm, and on Sunday 9 June from 7am to 11pm. Immediately after the closing of voting operations, counting for the elections will begin on Sunday 9 June Europeans. The counting of the municipal elections for mayor and city council will begin at 2 pm on Monday 10 June.
The editorial staff of Primapaginamazara will follow the electoral count with guests in the studio set up at the “Mandrake” wine bar (C/so Umberto I, n.36) via the relevant Facebook page, with a non-stop live broadcast, providing results in real time thanks also to those sent in the field. The long electoral campaign for the administrative offices which saw popular involvement through meetings and messages conveyed above all through social media is therefore preparing to end (barring a run-off); an event that has increasingly taken on the characteristics of a “social-pop” phenomenon (in the cover photo the three candidates for mayor in the pop-art version created by Gianni Quinci “Mandrake”).
Francesco Mezzapelle
