In Montesilvano Ottavio De Martinis wins by landslide.
The confirmation of the center-right mayoral candidate takes place 70 to 30 percent, against Fabrizio D’Addazio, candidate of the centre-left and the Five Star Movement. In Montesilvano De Martinis wins clearly and the result has a value that goes beyond its proportions, and concerns the League, which collapsed in the city, and the rivalry and competition within the center-right political forces.
The party of Matteo Salvini in Abruzzo it has in fact denied the membership of one of its main institutional exponents, so much so as to play the role of president of the Province of Pescara. Accused of not having committed himself to the Northern League in the regional elections, De Martinis had been the victim of a barrage of Northern League leaders, starting from the undersecretary Luigi D’Eramowho had come to advance the alternative candidacy of Anthony Aliano. Then, after the other parties had reiterated their support for the outgoing mayor, the League withdrew Aliano but reiterated its “disavowal” of De Martinis.
Which evidently did not influence the performance of the candidate, who also always wanted to declare his belonging to the League. The Northern League in the city has collapsed to 7.1 percent, when five years ago it was over 30. Fratelli d’Italia reached 27.5 percent, Forza Italia to 19.2. It is also interesting to note that the very heated competition in the Pescara area between the party of Giorgia Meloni and the one founded by Silvio Berlusconi ended in favor of the first: ahead of both Montesilvano and Pescara, even if in this last case the difference is very small (18 to 17.9 percent, around seventy votes, which however are enough to trigger a seat in more to Brothers of Italy). The League in the Adriatic city does even worse, stopping at 6.6 percent.
Gaps that seem to confirm the position expressed a month ago in the capital by Vincenzo D’Incecco, regional councilor and point man of the League in Pescara: “We are in a different phase from five years ago, when we opened up to the whole world because we were on the rise. As often happens, politicians have moved according to electoral flows. Today our party finds itself in a phase in which it has suffered a decline in membership and preferences, while maintaining a respectable following in Abruzzo, between 7.5 and 8 percent in terms of votes. It therefore needs to reorganize its internal presence on the basis of real belonging. We need people who believe in the League’s real project. We must start from this, involve those who want to be in the League.”
The capital’s special on the elections
