Varese, 8 June 2024 – Municipal elections of 8 and 9 June in the Varese areaI am 77 municipalities will go to vote, a total of 321,386 inhabitants, in 10 there will be only one candidate for mayor, while in Tradate, between the three municipalities – also Malnate and Samarate – with more than 15 thousand inhabitants for which a run-off is scheduled, the challenge will end immediately in the first round since they are two candidates are running. The the smallest municipality to vote is Duno with 144 inhabitantstwo candidates, as the largest, Tradate with 18834 inhabitants. Overall, 286 sections will be set up, the names of 77 mayors and 878 councilors will emerge from the ballot boxes.
THE ten municipalities in which there is only one candidate are in the Upper Varesotto, I am Tronzano, the smallest, (225 inhabitants) therefore, Azzio (743), Brusimpiano (1177), Caravate (2541), Cuvio (1633) e Port Valtravaglia (2287), near Varese Crosio della Valle (596 inhabitants), Lozza (1232), Rancor (1297) while the most populous among the centers with only one candidate it’s Casciago, 3588 residents, the outgoing mayor in the field Mirko Reto. In the 10 municipalities voting with only one candidate there is a concern, it concerns abstentionismtherefore to defeat disaffection with participation, to reach the quorum (40%) and 50% of valid votes to avoid being placed under commissionership. Caravate’s sole candidate, the outgoing mayor Nicola Tardugno he threw an appeal and he wrote a letter to his fellow citizens to invite them to go to the polls.
Center-right and center-left coalitions split in two Malnate. Four-way race with two party candidates, that is Sandro Damiani (centre-right with Fratelli d’Italia, Malnate Ideale, Lega Salvini prime minister and Forza Italia) e Nadia Cannito (PD and civic groups – Lista Maria Croci, La Malnate che come and Viviamo Malnate) and two civic but area candidates, i.e. Irene Bellifemine, outgoing mayor (with Malnate Sostenibile, Irene Bellifemine mayor for Malnate and Malnate in motion) and Paola Cassina former Northern League member (with Malnà la ghè, La Cassina and Idee in Circolo).
In Samarate, the challenge is five-way. The Northern League member Enrico Puricelli he wants to hold on to the tricolor band: he will try with a united center-right, which has decided to bet only on the parties – Lega, Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia – without relying on the civic lists. Among the opponents, there is the center-left gathered around Alessandro Ferrazzi: a coalition made up of the Democratic Party, the civic Samarate Città Viva and young people under 30 from Giovamenti. The Five Stars movement instead, he is betting everything on the outgoing minority councilor Alessio Sozzi. Then, Luca Macchi he is a candidate proposing the “Samarate al Centro” project and chooses to run alone, trying to reunite the city’s moderate wing. To close, the surprise of “Samarate Insieme” signed Alessandro Cenciwhich gave birth to a group that called itself a Liberation Committee.
There will be no runoff in Tradate. Unlike other municipalities with over 15 thousand inhabitants such as Malnate and Samarate, here there are only two mayoral candidates, who will therefore clash directly in the first round. No civic body joined what is the most obvious duel possible: centre-right versus centre-left. On the one hand there is the outgoing mayor Giuseppe Bascialla, supported by Lega, Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia – Movimento Prealpino. For the center-left it presents itself Pietro Vanzulli, supported by Tradate futuro, Partecipare semper and the Democratic Party.
Here are all the other Municipalities voting, with less than 15 thousand inhabitants. Arcisate – Arsago Seprio – Azzio-Bedero Valcuvia – Besnate – Biandronno- Bisuschio-Bodio Lomnago – Brebbia – Brinzio – Brunello-Brusimpiano – Buguggiate – Cadrezzate with Osmate – Cantello – Caravate – Cardano Al Campo – Carnago – Caronno Varesino- Casalzuigno-Casciago – Cassano Valcuvia – Castello Cabiaglio – Castelseprio – Castelveccana – Castiglione Olona – Castronno – Cavaria con Premezzo – Cazzago Brabbia – Comabbio – Crosio Della Valle – Cunardo – Curiglia with Monteviasco -Cuveglio – Cuvio – Dumenza-Duno – Ferrera di Varese – Gavirate – Gazzada Schianno -Germignaga-Gorla Minore-Gornate Olona – Grantola – Induno Olona- Ispra-Lozza – Maccagno con Pino and Veddasca – Marnate – Marzio – Mercallo – Mesenzana – Monvalle-Morazzone-Mornago – Olgiate Olona – Orino – Porto Valtravaglia – Rancio Valcuvia-Ranco – Sesto Calende -Solbiate Arno – Solbiate Olona – Taino- Ternate – Travedona Monate -Tronzano Lago Maggiore – Uboldo – Valganna – Varano Borghi- Vedano Olona – Venegono Inferiore – Viggiu’ – Vizzola Ticino.
