BELLUNO. “In an election where as always everyone wonwe want to offer our congratulations to Herbert Dorfmannreconfirmed in the European Parliament”: this is what the movement says Belluno Autonomous Region of the Dolomites opens his comment to the results of European elections.
The Europeans.
There Svp has essentially held in the province of Belluno compared to the 2019 elections: 3.9% today, 4.0% five years ago. “It’s the only comforting fact in a scenario you’ve seen turnout in the province dropped by more than 10 percentage points”, continue from Bard. “When all the national parties have finished their celebrations, someone will have to ask themselves why Citizens’ disaffection with politics is growingeven in those situations where the local elections should have been the driving force”.
“It was a campaign non-campaign: we didn’t talk about themes, but only of controversies and party struggles within coalitions. This certainly doesn’t bring voters closer”, the movement commented.
Then there is the question of preferences: Dorfmann bring home 1569 preferences, which put him in seventh place at provincial level behind the big names in national and regional politics. “Unfortunately the message of the importance of indicating preference was not conveyed: just under one voter in two wrote Dorfmann’s name on the ballot, five years ago it was 62%; if that ratio had been maintained we would be talking about around 2000 preferences. What matters is anyway have achieved the goal to bring Dorfmann to represent us once again in Europe”.
The prospects.
The European vote then opens up interesting prospects in view of the next electoral confrontations, e.g Bard is already looking with interest at the 2025 regional elections: “The outcome of the polls indicates one strong extremism of the votedriven above all by national leaders and candidates, which opens a interesting glimmer of light for moderates. The regional elections will be a completely different theme, with local candidates and constituencies divided on a provincial basis: if the third mandate for regional presidents is not introduced, next year in Veneto we will witness a real revolution, which can only pass for a popular, moderate and autonomist reality like this region and our province have always been. From this current scenario we must start to build a credible path also for the Belluno area in the 2025 electoral race”.
