The electoral round of 8 and 9 June which involved 3,698 Italian municipalities called to renew the mayor and their administrative bodies has ended, there are just over 100 municipalities in Italy in which there will be a run-off for the election of the mayor. The second round, which exclusively concerns municipalities with more than 15 thousand inhabitants in which no candidate obtained more than 50% of the votes in the first round, will take place from 7am to 11pm on Sunday 23 June and from 7am to 3pm on Monday 24 June. Once the polls have closed, counting will begin and the first screenings will arrive. In particular, Bari, Florence and Perugia are the main cities and another dozen capitals.
Cities on the ballot
After having won 10 administrations in the first round (Bergamo, Pavia, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Prato, Livorno, Cesena, Pesaro, Sassari and Cagliari), some with the help of the wide field, the centre-left starts as the favorite in the run-offs in Florence and Bari where he obtained greater consensus in the first round. TO Florence, Education Councilor Sara Funaro will return to the vote, supported by the Pd, the Italian Left + Europe, Action, Green Europe, the Labor Movement, Volt and the Center Movement, with 43.2% of the votes in the first round, and the former director of the Uffizi Eike Dieter Schmidt, for the center-right (32.9%). Second round also for Bariwhere the center-left candidate Vito Leccese, ahead with 48%, and the center-right candidate Fabio Saverio Romito, with 29.1% of the preferences, will once again “clash”.
The centre-right, however, has already established itself in Biella, Ferrara, Forlì, Ascoli, Pescara, Avellino and is ahead in Potenza, Campobasso, Lecce, Caltanissetta and Vercelli. Specifically, a Powercompeting for the mayor’s seat will be Francesco Fanelli (Lega), who was ahead in the first round with 40.6% and Vincenzo Telesca (centre-left), with 32.4%.
Ballot also for Campobasso, where the centre-right candidate for mayor was initially given as the winner, but an error later emerged in the counting of the disjointed votes. At the end of the meeting of the Central Electoral Office at Palazzo San Giorgio on 12 June, the correct data were communicated: Aldo De Benedittis (centre-right at 48.31%), will challenge Marialuisa Forte (centre-left at 31.89%).
Second round also a Lecce: on 13 June the central electoral commission completed the recount of four sections, whose data had been deemed inconsistent, and there will be a run-off between Adriana Poli Bortone, candidate of the centre-right, stuck at 49.95%, and the outgoing mayor Carlo Salvemini, re-nominated for the centre-left, which obtained 46.73%. TO CaltanissettaInstead, Walter Calogero Tesauro (centre-right at 34.42%) and Annalisa Maria Petitto (30.82%) will go to the ballot and Vercelli Roberto Scheda (centre-right at 37.87%) and Gabriele Bagnasco (25.60%). A few hundred votes separate the two coalitions in Perugia (about 500 more preferences for the centre-left), Cremona (the centre-right ahead by 400 votes) and Urbino (200). Specifically, a Perugiait will be head to head between Vittoria Ferdinandi (centre-left expanded to 49.1%) and Margherita Scoccia (centre-right to 48.29%), a Cremona between Alessandro Portesani, with 43.11% of votes, and Andrea Virgilio, with 42.11% of preferences and Urbino between Maurizio Gambini (47.96%) and Federico Scaramucci (44.73%).
see also
Municipal election results: csx wins in Bergamo and Cagliari
Ballot: how to vote
As mentioned, if no candidate has obtained a majority in the first round, the two candidates who have obtained the highest number of votes will compete in the second round. The ballot paper includes the name and surname of the candidates for the office of mayor, written within the appropriate rectangle, under which the symbols of the connected lists are reproduced. The vote is expressed by drawing a mark on the rectangle within which the name of the chosen candidate is written. Split voting is not permitted, i.e. the possibility of voting for a candidate for the office of mayor and, at the same time, for a list of candidates for the office of municipal councilor not connected to that candidate for mayor.
