After the elections on 8 and 9 June, next Sunday and Monday we will go back to the polls in the municipalities with over 15 thousand inhabitants who were unable to immediately elect the new mayor.
In the first round 50% plus one of the preferences were needed but the objective, among the main cities, was achieved in 15 centres: 9 to the centre-left, which won in Cagliari and Bergamo with Elena Carnevali and Massimo Zedda, and won also Pavia, Cesena, Livorno, Modena, Pesaro, Prato, Reggio Emilia; 6 in the centre-right, which confirmed Pescara with Carlo Masci and also won in Campobasso, Ascoli Piceno, Biella, Ferrara, Forlì. In the other 13 provincial capitals, however, there will be a run-off: voting will take place from 7am to 11pm on Sunday 23 June and from 7am to 3pm on Monday 24 June.
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THE MOST ANTICIPATED DUELS
Among the most anticipated duels is the one in Florence. The head-to-head is between councilor Sara Funaro (who received 43% of the votes in the first round), supported by the Pd, Italian Left + Europe, Action, Green Europe, Labor Movement, Volt and Center Movement, and the centre-right of former Uffizi director Eike Schmidt, behind by about ten points on 8-9 June. Similar comparison in Bari, where the centre-left with Vito Leccese and the centre-right Fabio Saverio Romito will always compete for the position of mayor. In the first round Leccese was well ahead (47%), Romito at 29%. Potenza is also voting where the mayor’s seat will go to the centre-right of Francesco Fanelli (Lega) or to the centre-left of Vincenzo Telesca. Fanelli finished ahead in the first round with 40% of the preferences, Telesca with 32%. Women’s duel in Perugia, with the head-to-head between the broad candidate Vittoria Ferdinandi (49% in the first round) and the centre-right candidate Margherita Scoccia (48%).
Second round in Caltanissetta between Walter Tesauro (centre-right) who obtained 34% and Annalisa Petitto, civic supported by the centre-left, with 30.82%. Avellino will instead have to choose between Antonio Gengaro, center-left candidate (36%), and Laura Nargi (34%), outgoing deputy mayor supported by three civic lists.
The duel was fought in Cremona between the centre-right candidate, Alessandro Portesani (43%) and the centre-left candidate, Andrea Virgilio (42%). Then Rovigo, where the centre-right candidate Valeria Cittadin barely exceeded 50% and is now expected in the run-off by Edoardo Gaffeo of the centre-left.
THE MINOR MUNICIPALITIES
Among the smaller municipalities, voting takes place in Piedmont in Verbania, Vercelli and Rivoli; in Lombardy in Chiari, Lainate, Novate Milanese Settimo Milanese; in Veneto in Legnago, Bassano del Grappa and Portogruaro; in Liguria in Rapallo; in Lazio in Civitavecchia, Palestrina, Tarquinia; in Campania in Torre Annunziata, Casal di Principe, Catel Volturno, San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Nocera Superiore and Aversa; in Sardinia in Monserrato; in Calabria in Gioia Tauro and Vibo Valentia; in Tuscany in Pontedera, Cortona, Empoli, Piombino, Montecatini Terme and Tresignana; in the Marche in Urbino and Recanati; in Molise in Colle d’Anchise. In Puglia in Manfredonia, San Severo, San Giovanni Rotondo, Putignano, Copertino and Santeramo in Colle. No Abruzzo municipality on the ballot.
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