Polls open and the three Calabrian municipalities with over 15,000 inhabitants called to the ballot to elect the new mayor after the first round ended with no candidate over 50%: voting takes place in Vibo Valentia, the only provincial capital affected by this round of the Administrative and Gioia Tauro. Polling stations open until 11pm today and tomorrow from 7am to 3pm.
All adult citizens with the right to vote who will be equipped with an electoral card and identification document, even those who, due to their will or impossibility, did not vote in the first round.
TO Vibo Valentia the challenge is between the centre-right mayoral candidate, Roberto Cosentino, who received 38.4% of the votes in the first round, and the centre-left mayoral candidate Enzo Romeo, former president of the Province of Vibo, who obtained 31.9% of the votes in the first round. In support of Romeo there is also, albeit without formal appearance, Francesco Muzzopappa, candidate for mayor of the third pole, who had obtained 28.9% in the first round. TO Gioia Tauro the candidates are two women, Simona Scarcella And Maria Rosaria Russo. Scarcella, a lawyer in service at the Port Authority, obtained 39.2% in the first round, while Russo, a school director, obtained 35.5%: in support of Russo, with even a formal appearance, another candidate for mayor, Rosario Schiavone, who received 18% in the first round. TO Montalto Uffugothe candidates for mayor, both civic, are Biagio Faragalliand former city councilor, e Mauro D’Acriformer regional councilor: in the first round Faragalli came close to being directly elected, obtaining 49%, while D’Acri achieved 42.5%.
