There are 28,618 voters called to the polls in Termoli this afternoon and all day tomorrow, both to renew the municipal administration and to vote in the European elections. But it is clear that the data that matters most locally is who will be the new mayor, successor to the Francesco Roberti-Vincenzo Ferrazzano tandem which has characterized the last five years. Of the 28,618 voters, 13,924 are male and 14,694 are women, distributed across the 29 sections, including the special one of the San Timoteo hospital. Six aspiring first citizens are in the running, with fourteen lists overall. Strictly in order of appearance on the ballot paper: Daniela Decaro with the symbol of Termoli Libera, Nico Balice with the six lists, based on the progressive order drawn today: Popolari, Fi, Fdi, Diritti e Libertà, Lega and Termoli Insieme; Marcella Stumpo with Termoli Bene Comune-Rete della Sinistra, Manuela Vigilante with M5S and Pd. Andrew Montesanto with Building Democracy and Joe Mileti with Voglia di Termoli, Democracy is Solidarity and Youth for Termoli. Different and distinct proposals, five belonging to a hypothetical single alignment, which fragmented from November to May, and the compact centre-right. Two blocks that characterized the closing rallies of the electoral campaign yesterday, the 3 civic ones with Montesanto in Piazza Insorti d’Hungarian, Decaro on the North seafront and Stumpo in Piazza Monumento, in the space of a good hour or so, from 6.10pm to Starting times are 7.20pm (the Decaro at 6.40pm), the others are more evening, with a special show for Mileti, from 8.30pm at Largo Tornola in the heart of the ancient village and then closing in the late evening with Vigilante at the Belvedere dei Fotografi at 10pm and more late again with Balice in Piazza Duomo, which replicated the closure that already occurred last year due to Francesco Roberti’s candidacy for Governor, with the centre-right parliamentarians and the coalition’s general staff showing their muscles. Tones that only sometimes really came to light, in a strange competition where social media is now more dominant than the streets, with offices that acted as a secretariat and not as a catalyst for consensus. In the last week there has been a marked attack by the five broad-progressives towards Balice, perhaps in an attempt to secure a run-off, a strategy that the voters will have to judge, but it is clear that everyone’s primary battle is against abstentionism.
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