Polls closed at 3pm after the second round of the administrative elections for 105 municipalities to vote. The first figure for the overall turnout, recorded in 26 of the 3,586 sections involved, was 47.72%. There are 14 provincial capitals called to choose their first. The spotlight is on Florence, Bari and Perugia, but the challenges of Campobasso, Potenza, Lecce and Caltanissetta also weigh heavily.
Precisely in Puglia, in Lecce, we note the complaint to the prosecutor’s office against the president of the Puglia Region Michele presented by the centre-right candidate, Adriana Poli Bortone, who denounced an alleged violation of electoral silence by the governor on the Saturday eve of the vote for the ballot.
The most anticipated challenges
The electoral battle in Perugia is close to Lana, where the two aspirants to the tricolor band obtained 49% of Vittoria Ferdinandi, of the centre-left, and 48.3% of Margherita Scoccia of the centre-right in the first round with a difference of a few hundred votes. ‘from each other. Uncertainty about the outcome of the vote also in Florence, where Sara Funaro (from the centre-left plus 5 Stars: 43% in the first round) and Eike Schmidt (from the centre-right, at 32.86%) are competing and in Bari with the challenge between Vito Leccese ( “campulargo” Pd + 5 Stelle, with 48%) and Fabio Romito (centre-right, 29%). In the Apulian capital, when few sections remain to be examined, in Bari the turnout stood at 59.68%, a drop of more than five points compared to the first round (64.71%). Abstention also grows in Florence, where 64.75% of those entitled to vote voted, compared to 69.69 in the first round (90% of the sections counted).
