Varese, 10 June 2024 – Waiting for the counting of the administrative elections in the province of Varese. Citizens were called to the polls on 8 and 9 June European – open to all those entitled to vote – and for municipal. In the province of Varese 77 municipalities voted, a total of 321,386 inhabitants. TO Tradebetween the three municipalities – also Malnate and Samarate – with more than 15 thousand inhabitants for whom the ballotthe challenge will end immediately in the first round as there are two candidates in the running.
At 11pm on Saturday 8th, the first available data on turnout, 17.91% of those entitled to vote in the province had voted. On Sunday at 12pm, however, turnout was 31.23% while at 7pm it had risen to 52.03% and then settled at 58.38%.
ALL RESULTS
The mayors already elected
In the province of Varese Already 10 mayors were virtually elected out of the 77 voting. In these municipalities there was only one mayoral candidate. The first condition to be elected is to exceed the quorum of 40% of voters. At 12pm on Sunday in Tronzano, the smallest municipality, Antonio Palmieri had already been confirmed by midday. Only one candidate also in Azzio (743), Brusimpiano (1177), Caravate (2541), Cuvio (1633) and Porto Valtravaglia (2287), in the surroundings of Varese Crosio della Valle (596 inhabitants), Lozza (1232), Ranco ( 1297) while the most populous of the centers with only one candidate is Casciago, 3588 residents.
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 Bellifemineoutgoing 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 Star Movement, on the other hand, is betting everything on the outgoing minority councilor Alessio Sozzthe. 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 by Alessandro Cenci, who gave life to a group that defined itself as 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 Vanzullisupported by Tradate futuro, Partecipare semper and the Democratic Party.
The two municipalities that may have to wait for the second round (23-24 June) to know the name of the new mayor are Malnate and Samarate.
