Ballot also in Lecce. Adriana Poli Bortone failed to get through to the first round by just 24 votes. The support of the other two former mayoral candidates, Alberto Siculella and Agostino Ciucci, could prove decisive
Approach tests. The two former mayoral candidates Siculella and Ciucci seem increasingly intent on giving their support to former senator Adriana Poli Bortone, in view of the run-off on 24 and 25 June. Not an alliance, but simple political agreements. The leader of “Rights and Civilizations for Lecce” is more convinced, as he is recovering from an illness he had in recent days. “Our electorate does not want Salvemini to continue managing the city”. This is the starting point of his considerations. Similar reasoning for the former 5 star Siculella, who broke away from the party after the Movement’s decision to support Salvemini. He will announce a decision at a press conference on Tuesday. The two former candidates in the first round had received a total of 1,700 votes, 3.3 percent, and in the run-off their support could be decisive. Adriana Poli Bortone had stopped at 49.95 percent, just 24 votes from being elected mayor of Lecce. Approximately sixteen hundred votes ahead of Salvemini, stuck at 46 and 3. Having put aside the controversy over what she had defined as the oddities of the vote, Adriana Poli Bortone resumed the electoral campaign among the people, on the long wave of the excellent result of the first round. “Lecce does not forget,” Salvemini attacks on social media, recalling the times when Poli Bortone was mayor. “They said that they were in charge here, but the city is not a ring. You won’t be able to go back to treating the people of Lecce as voters and not as citizens”, the outgoing mayor’s thrust.
