LIGURIA – The lower voter turnout compared to the first round in Sanremo and Rapallo, the two municipalities in Liguria called to the ballot to elect their new mayor, has been confirmed as expected. Today the polls reopen at 7am and you can vote until 3pm.
TO Sanremo at 11pm on Sunday 34.24% of those entitled to vote had voted (by the third survey of the first round the figure had reached 48.74%, in that case voting took place on Saturday afternoon and Sunday). Sanremo therefore loses 14 percentage points in turnout compared to the first round.
TO Rapallo at 11pm on Sunday the 27.3% of those entitled (by the third survey of the first round the figure had reached 44.44%). Here the drop in turnout was over 17%. Polling stations permanently closed at 3pm on Monday 24 June. Then the counting will start immediately afterwards. Primocanale will follow the results live with updates, interviews and insights.
A decreasing trend in turnout also confirmed by previous hourly surveys: TO Sanremo at 7 pm he voted 28.37% of those entitled to vote (at the second survey of the first round the figure had reached 32.81%, in that case voting took place on Saturday afternoon and Sunday). TO Rapallo at 7 pm he voted 21.5% of those entitled (at the second survey of the first round the figure had reached 28.88%).In Sanremo 12.48% of those entitled to vote had voted and 7.07% in Rapallo according to the Interior Ministry data published on the Eligendo portal and which refer to all of the 56 sections of the Municipality of Sanremo and the 36 sections of Rapallo. In the same sections at 11pm on Saturday 8 June, in the first round, in Sanremo the percentage of voters was approximately 19% and in Rapallo 17.56%.
VOTE –
SANREMO – Here the match is between the candidate supported by the centre-right parties, the engineer Gianni Rolando and the civic candidate, the lawyer Alessandro Mager. The two candidates in the first round voted in the polling station at the Pascoli schools in Corso Cavallotti. Rolando in section 43 while Mager, at the head of the civic coalition, in 39 him together with his wife.
In the first round, of those entitled to vote (46,071), 55.31% voted, 189 blank ballots, six contested and 657 invalid. There were initially six candidates and, once the ballots were concluded, Rolando’s coalition (Fratelli d’Italia; Sanremo Domani; Andiamo!; Lega Sanremo; Forza Italia and Udc) obtained 10,436 votes, equal to 42.37% of the preferences. Followed by Mager (Anima, Sanremo al Centro, Idea and Forum Sanremo) with 7,957 votes, 32.31% of the preferences.
Out of the gamebut with an interesting number of preferences (20%), in view of the run-off, there is Fulvio Fellegara, civic candidate of the center-left and Democratic Party. Fellegara, only two days ago, made his support for Mager official, thus creating an incandescent climate, starting from the split in the Democratic party where part of the members do not recognize themselves in the figure of Mager. The reaction was immediate Rolando who focused the magnifying glass on, in his opinion, total inconsistency on the part of Mager and his ‘ally’. Mager and Fellegara’s replies are ready and publicly they claim to have found a common line. The agreement received a firm no from both parties.
RAPALLO – Here, however, the comparison is a done deal, but let’s go back to understand who the two mayoral candidates are. In the first round the centre-right candidate won with 45.20% (6,410 votes) Elisabetta Ricciagainst 25.14% (3,565) of the civic candidate Armando Ezio Capurro. Ricci, a teacher by profession, was supported by Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia, after a push and pull with the outgoing Carlo Bagnasco, elected five years ago with almost 80% of the preferences, with a real plebiscite . Added to her parties is her civic list with some members of the League inside.
Capurro, on the other hand, former mayor of Rapallo between 2004 and 2006, boasts long political experience also as a regional councilor, independent but in support of the former president of the Region Claudio Burlando. It is precisely the former mayor who found an agreement with the centre-left candidate, soul of the Democratic Party, Francesco Angiolani, who on the election day of 8 and 9 June had stopped at 13%. The dems have decided to lend their symbol in support of him.
