On June 8th and 9th, between twenty-seven provincial capitals called to the polls to elect the their new mayorthere is also Ferrara. I am in the shadow of the Estense Castle four candidates who will compete.
After the historic victory in 2019 with which he managed to conquer what was – until then – considered a historical fiefdom of the leftthe outgoing mayor Alan Fabbri (45 years old) is hunting for an encore with his own civic list. There is everything to support it compact centre-right: from Fratelli d’Italia to the Lega Salvini Premier, up to Forza Italia-Noi Moderati, Ferrara al Centro and Udc.
Challenging him is the 67 year old lawyer Fabio Anselmolawyer in the cases of Federico Aldrovandi and Stefano Cucchi, also with a civic list, supported by the centre-left: Democratic Party, Five Star Movement, United Left for Anselmo, Action+Pri and I Civici.
At a national level, Anselmo has also received the endorsement of the Italian Left and the Greens, whose local leaderships however have chosen to embrace (without symbolsed.) the cause of third candidate Anna Zonari of La Comune di Ferrara. Second candidate from the centre-left area, a 53-year-old clinical and community psychologist, she is also supported by + Ferrara in Europa, Psi and Possibile.
Neither with the right nor with the left, Daniele Botti he is the mayoral candidate of the Ferrara Futura civic list, supported by Italia Viva. 29-year-old entrepreneur, former vice president of Acer and already candidate for councilor in 2019 in support of Alan Fabbri on the list of Ferrara CivicBotti presents himself with a pure civic attitude, “centrist, moderate and open to dialogue”.
Five years ago, in 2019, Fabbri had triumphed in the runoff with 56.77% of the votesmanaging to beat the centre-left candidate Aldo Modonesi, stuck at 43.23%. The second round was reached after a first round of elections that he had seen the current outgoing mayor reach 48.44%while the challenger had stopped at 31.75%. The other aspiring first citizens are even further behind: Roberta Fusari, candidate in the ranks of +Europa, Civic Action and Civic Coalition, obtained 8.63%. Tommaso Mantovani of the Five Star Movement had stopped at 6.83%. Alberto Bova of Italia in Comune had taken 2.33%.
