We are just a week away from the European elections but also from an administrative electoral consultation which involved 3,700 municipalities in Italy. Citizens were called to renew the mayors and their municipal councils. Of these 3,700 municipalities, 29 were provincial capitals. The most significant figure was that of abstentionism at a national level: less than 50% of the citizens who I know went to the polls. A worrying fact that highlights citizens’ disaffection towards politics and the administration of public affairs.
For the archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo, Franco Moscone, the “non-vote” won in the first round with an absolute majority! Voter turnout – he wrote in a note released by the diocese – for the European Parliament stopped at 49.69%, a negative record in the history of the Republic, not even half of those entitled to vote went to the polls. Sooner or later it had to happen in the absence of a trend reversal for which we don’t even seem to see the prerequisites.” For the prelate, abstentionism “shamefully obtained a majority with a ‘historic’ negative result, thus highlighting the growing disaffection towards the institutions, in particular the European ones, if not even towards the democratic exercise of the vote”.
Moscone underlines how in the three municipalities of the diocese in which the vote was taken for the election of the renewal of local administrations, the percentage of voters exceeded the threshold of 50%. While awaiting the results of the ballots, scheduled for next Sunday, in two municipalities – San Giovanni Rotondo and Manfredonia – the prelate extends his best wishes to the elected mayor of the Tremiti Islands for a “profitable government” and extends thanks to “all the mayoral candidates, even those who did not reach the ballot, for having wanted to engage in the political arena at the service of their city” inviting, in light of the turnout data, “all the citizens of Manfredonia and San Giovanna, even those who abstained in the first round , to a healthy, massive and active participation in the run-off vote between the two candidates remaining on the list for the mayoral service”.
An article from Acistampa.con reports it
