The electoral success of the outgoing mayor Decaro is a driving force for the entire Democratic Party which becomes the first party in Puglia in the European elections
In Puglia, the electoral success in the European elections of Antonio Decaro, outgoing mayor of Bari, drives the electoral result of the Democratic Party which becomes the first party in the region. The Dems are therefore more than six percentage points behind the Brothers of Italy. Collapse instead for M5S and Lega which in the previous elections had been the first and second parties respectively.
The excellent result of the Democratic Party is also decisive for the mayoral elections in Bari: the candidate supported by the Dem and the Greens, Vito Leccese, according to the exit polls, should go to the run-off with the centre-right candidate, Fabio Romito. The other candidate of part of the left and M5S, Michele Laforgia, would thus be excluded from the second electoral competition.
For them European elections, a short distance from the final result, the Puglia PD exceeded 33.5% of the votes with Decaro exceeding 348 thousand preferences (at the southern constituency level it is close to half a million) far ahead of the list leader Lucia Annunziata (almost 70 thousand preferences ). The second party, Brothers of Italy (27%) with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni obtaining over 194 thousand preferences.
Third party is the M5S (14%). The League falls to fifth place with just over 6% of the votes; The Greens and Left Alliance remains below 4%.
Above all, the most disappointing figure is that of abstention which is still growing: the turnout was 43.61%, below the national average of 49.84%.
