TERAMO. Continuity: this is the word that best summarizes the electoral round of 8 and 9 June in the Teramo area. In the province there were 23 municipalities where citizens were called to the polls for the renewal of municipal councils: many reconfirmations, very few new features. In 19 cases, outgoing mayors ran as candidates and 17 of them (including larger municipalities such as Giulianova, Campli and Mosciano Sant’Angelo) obtained the favor of the voters by remaining in their positions for the second, third and in some cases for the fourth mandate . The exceptions were: Penna Sant’Andrea, where the former mayor Severino Serrani succumbed to the onslaught of Nicola Saliniand Montefino, where the outgoing Ernesto Piccari handed the sash to Luigi Giammarino.
We can talk about continuity in Pineto where he won Alberto Dell’Orlettaformer deputy mayor of his predecessor Robert Verrocchioagainst Cleto Pallini. Tossicia moved along somewhat different coordinates of continuity where the newly elected Franco Tarquini he had already administered before the last council to lead Emanuela Rispoli (overthrown by his majority) who had governed with him. Tarquini, however, was there to challenge him Nando Timoteo, already in the Rispoli council. Where we can speak of discontinuity, however, is in Cermignano and Sant’Egidio alla Vibrata. In the first case Danilo Del Cane he won by three votes over his challenger Elisa Marchisellialready in the former mayor’s administration Febo Di Berardo candidate on the list in support of him. In the Vibratian centre, however, he prevailed Annunzio Amatucci who beat both the outgoing vice mayor Luigino Medori That Alessandro Forlini of the centre-right. A picture, the one that emerged from the administrative elections, which does not overturn the political structures but pushes parties and movements in the area to internal reflections.
Because if it is true that almost all the municipalities have moved on civic lists, it is equally true that these have not lacked support from parties and support from personalities of local institutions. Among those who are ready to open an internal reflection is certainly the Democratic Party which, if on the one hand it celebrates victories ranging from Pineto to Mosciano, up to Penna Sant’Andrea and Torano, on the other hand will have to “deepen the situation of Atri, where we have lost with a much wider gap than last time against the same mayoral candidate. We will also have to think about Campli”, he comments Piergiorgio Possenti, provincial secretary of the Democratic Party. A sore point for the centre-left is Giulianova: «taking note of the clear victory of the opponents, we note that after five years we have returned to having two PD members elected to the city council. From here, from them, we begin a reconstruction process”, concludes Possenti. On the opposite front, that of the centre-right, there is great satisfaction for important victories such as Giulianova, Atri, Sant’Egidio.
«We did well and in some cases better than expected: Giulianova’s success is exceptional if you consider the history of the city», he comments Paolo Gatti, regional councilor of Fratelli d’Italia, «for Campli there is little to comment, while on Sant’Egidio even if we were divided we achieved the objective», continues Gatti, «sorry for Mosciano: if a synthesis had been found , as we tried to do, we could have turned the situation around. For the rest, many confirmations, few changes and a picture full of spurious situations, that is, hybrid civics. The real political data is that of the European elections where the centre-right did very well.”
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