Florence, 11 June 2024 – Whoever said that “Florence is dissatisfied and Dario Nardella will also pay the bill at the European Championships” did not have a wonderful good morning. Because the data speaks clearly: Nardella is a European parliamentarian. In the constituency of central ItalyAccording to the latest data, Nardella has had a boom in preferences, easily exceeding 116 thousand, the third most voted after the Pd secretary Elly Schlein (over 163 thousand) and Nicola Zingaretti (around 123 thousand). Nardella looks at everyone from above: Matteo Ricci, Camilla Laureti and also Antonio Mazzeo who comes down with his 25 thousand votes he couldn’t get in to the European Parliament. If we look at the data in Tuscany, the numbers say that Nardella even did better than Schlein (60 thousand against 50 thousand) and in the province of Florence he doubled the number of preferences (Nardella at 24 thousand, Schlein at 12 thousand).
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Mayor the outgoing candidate also did very well in Lazio, with over 45 thousand preferences. In the Marche, Nardella received just over 2,678 votes, much better in Umbria (over 7,851). Numbers that take on a double value when compared to those of friend-enemy Matteo Renzi (United States of Europe), who stopped at 64 thousand preferences, while Susanna Ceccardi (Lega) at 33 thousand. If we see the analysis of the vote within Tuscany, Nardella was the most voted in Siena and its province (over 6,000 preferences), Pistoia and its province (over 4,900), Arezzo and its province (more than 4,800), Prato and its province (over 2,300 votes) and in Grosseto (over 3,600): excellent results in Lucca (over 4,600 ), Livorno (over 3,500 preferences), Massa-Carrara (over 3,200).
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In Pisa Nardella it went beyond 3 thousand preferences and placed itself in fourth place in a province that saw Mazzeo dominate (more than 10 thousand preferences). What happened in Rignano sull’Arno, the homeland par excellence of Matteo Renzi, is curious: here Nardella reached 272 votes, while Renzi stopped at 213 preferences. A fact that makes you think, especially for the symbolism of the place.
Aside of the now MEP there is great satisfaction: “If we add the excellent result of the European elections with the possible confirmation of the exit polls” in the municipal elections in Florence “we can consider ourselves absolutely satisfied with what the forecasts of the polls of the last few days were “. Florence, if these data are confirmed, “he responded in the right way – continues the former mayor – and all this will give us the confidence to face the next few days with energy, commitment and success”.
And there’s no shortage of it a jab at his former ‘colleague’ at Palazzo Vecchio: “The forecasts didn’t go as Renzi had made them – he thunders –, but if he still comes to visit me in Brussels I don’t see why I shouldn’t welcome him and greet him properly”. On Rignano “they told me” about what happened “but not I faced this electoral campaign measuring my votes with those of Renzi – he adds –. I looked a little higher at what the overall result is for everyone to see.”
And finally: “I think that as far as I’m concerned, it rewarded the fact – he says – that I never succumbed to provocation of personal controversy, have always maintained my style, the commitment to a clean, correct, balanced but also very clear and clear policy as I have always been. The most effective response came from the voters.”
