Forlì 2024 administrative elections: polls open for these municipal elections which are merged – as regards the first round – with the European elections as already happened five years ago for a sort of election day.
In the 2024 local elections Gian Luca Zattini will be back on the field, with the current center-right mayor running for a second mandate at the helm of a broad coalition that will also include Action and Italia Viva.
In the center-left the Democratic Party has decided to focus on Graziano Rinaldini, then finding the support of the 5 Star Movement and the left. To complete the list of candidates there are also Maria Ileana Acqua for ContiamoCi e Vito Botticella for the Italian Communist Party.
Let’s see them then timetables of opening and closing of polls, who are the candidates mayor in these administrative elections Forlì 2024, the lists in their support and how to vote according to the dictates of electoral law.
Forlì 2024 administrative elections: dates and times
The Forlì 2024 administrative elections will be held on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June regarding the first round. As mentioned, at the same time we will also vote for the European elections and in Piedmont for the regional elections.
These are the timetables opening and closing of polls for the 2024 local elections.
- Saturday 8th: from 3pm to 11pm
- Sunday 9th: from 7am to 11pm
The counting of votes of the first round of the local elections will begin at 2pm on Monday 10th June.
The possible turn of ballot for the local elections it will be held on Sunday 23 June from 7am to 11pm and on Monday 24 June from 7am to 3pm.
How to vote in the local elections in Forlì
For elect the mayor and, at the same time, the town Councilthe voter in the local elections has three voting options:
- put an X on the symbol of the list, thus also assigning the vote to the candidate for Mayor;
- put an X only on the name of the aspiring mayor (in this case no vote will be assigned to the list);
- put an X on the list and write the surname of the councilor candidate you prefer.
In local elections, split voting is permitted: it means that the voter can cross out the name of the mayoral candidate he prefers and also put an X on a list that supports a different candidate.
In municipalities with over 15,000 inhabitants it is also possible to assign the double gender preference: just write the surnames of the two candidates of different sexes belonging to the same list.
The electoral law
There electoral law of local elections in Italy it is majority-based when it comes to the election of the mayor, while the distribution of councilors takes place in a proportional manner.
Being Forlì a municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants, if no candidate in the first round obtains an absolute majority then a ballot between the two most voted. If there is a perfect head-to-head tie, the oldest candidate will be elected mayor.
To guarantee the formation of a solid majority and consequently substantial governability, the winning mayoral candidate will be added to the lists linked to the candidate awarded 60% of the seats; the remaining seats on the Council will then be assigned to the other lists in a proportional manner through the “D’Hondt method”.
When the seats are divided, the total number of seats will be elected 32 councilors excluding the mayor, all lists and groups of lists of candidates who have passed the threshold will be admitted barrier threshold 3% of valid votes.
Candidates and lists
In total they are four candidates for mayor running in the Forlì 2024 local elections: here’s who they are and which lists support them.
| Candidates | Lists | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Ileana Acqua | Let’s count on it | / |
| Vito Botticella | Italian Communist Party | / |
| Graziano Rinaldini | Pd, M5s, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, RinnoviAmo Forlì | / |
| Gian Luca Zattin | Lega, Forza Italia, Fratelli d’Italia, Forlì Cambia, Popolo della Famiglia | / |
In the 2019 local elections Gian Luca Zattini a small miracle succeeded: thanks to a victory obtained in the run-off with 53% of the votes he managed to bring the centre-right to the leadership of Forlì for the first time.
Five years later Zattini will be back on the field in the 2024 local elections, with the mayor having managed to broaden his coalition to include other political forces such as Italia Viva and Azione.
In the center-left, after the “no thanks” of the CGIL secretary Maria Giorgini, the Democratic Party has chosen as aspiring first citizen Graziano Rinaldiniformer director of Formula Servizi, who will also be supported by the 5 Star Movement and the left.
As far as civics are concerned, there is a dermatologist in the field Maria Ileana Acqua Let’s count on it while Vito Botticella will be the mayoral candidate of the Italian Communist Party.
