«Currently there are no differences compared to the data that we had promptly collected and which indicate that none of the candidates reaches 50% of the consensus, therefore the most supported will have to go to the ballot, therefore Adriana Poli Bortone and myself». You held a press conference today mayor outgoing of Lecce, Carlo Salveminiawaiting verification by the Electoral Commission on four sections.
In Lecce, based on the counts of 98 seats out of 102, the centre-right candidate Adriana Poli Bortone is at 49.64 while Salvemini is at 47%. The commission’s work – according to Salvemini – will end tomorrow. «All the counting operations of the 102 sections – Salvemini said this evening – were concluded regularly with communication of the results and the preference votes granted to each candidate and each list. What has been highlighted is a material error in some delivery reports that the presidents deliver to the electoral office on which checks are being carried out, in the absence of which the Eligendo platform is unable to acquire the data. The commission cannot open the ballots, it cannot recount them, this is a task that can possibly be ordered by the administrative judge following an appeal from the interested parties”.
The reply
«The evidence is solid and indisputable: Salvemini was rejected by the voters and there is a new majority in the city – he replies Adriana Poli Bortone -. Net of the findings from the central electoral office, which could confirm or improve the centre-right’s performance at the polls, over 50 percent of citizens chose to send Salvemini home, rejecting his work and his 7 years of administration. In this electoral round the centre-right lists exceeded 50 percent of the votes. This is a fact that testifies to an acquired and incontrovertible success. Beyond the proclamations in which the outgoing mayor announces run-off elections with polls still open and unlikely interpretations of realities that not even the left believes in”
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