Municipalities, here are the seven challenges of the ballots of 28 and 29 May – Corriere.it

Challenges in the ballots of 28 and 29 May after the first round finished 4 to 2 for the center-right. The game reopens between the provincial capitals poised in seven cities. Albeit without formal agreements, the centre-left hopes to overturn the final balance, while the centre-right is confident that the results will hold up. Below the duels in the seven provincial capitals.

Pisa/Detachment of 15 votes between Conti and Martinelli

More than the possible appearances (more probable in the center-left than in the center-right) it is the recounts that set fire to the already hot administrative elections in Pisa. Mayor Michael Conti, 53 years old, Northern League sympathies, did not win in the first round by fifteen votes and many ballots were contested. So in Palazzo Gambacorti, the town hall, the polls have once again been opened today to analyze all the preferences. A painstaking and tense work that on Friday resulted in the intervention of the Digos to calm spirits. Conti, with a surprising 49.96% of votes (they were 33% in the first round in 2018), does not seem to be afraid of the probable runoff. But his direct rival,

Paul Martinelli, 39 years old, former president of ACLI, stopped at 41.12%, an excellent result that bodes well for a difficult but not impossible final victory. The support of the left of Ciccio Auletta, candidate of a city in the municipality and popular union, expressions of the radical left (7.2%) could be decisive. “Whatever the outcome of the ballot, we will remain in the opposition because our program is also an alternative to the centre-left – he explains -. Who will we vote for? We do not have a proprietary idea of ​​the vote and our electorate will choose based on values ​​and programmes. We are left-wingers, though.” (Marco Gasperetti)

Siena/The mayor will be a woman

The only political and institutional certainty in Siena is that the next mayor will be a woman. But who will win the ballot between Nicoletta Fabio61, Italian teacher and centre-right candidate e Anna Ferretti, 71 years old, a past as councilor and expression of the Italian Democratic Party and the Left, will remain a puzzle until the last vote. In the first round, after overtaking at the photo finish, Nicoletta Fabio obtained 30.5% of the votes, while Ferretti 28.7%. Now the balance could be Fabio Pacciani at the head of the grouping of civic lists (22.65%) who, however, will not give an indication of the vote. Don’t forget the lists
by Massimo Castagnini (Italia viva) who obtained 7.19% in the first round and that of Emanuele Montomoli (6.79%) who was supposed to be the center-right candidate but was then fired by the Brothers of Italy due to his membership to Freemasonry. Even the center-left candidate, Anna Ferretti, will not make appearances. In short, after the Monte dei Paschi storm and the historic victory of the centre-right, the most absolute uncertainty reigns in Siena. About 400 votes separate the two candidates but in the city of the Palio nobody would bet a penny on the victory of one or the other. (Marco Gasperetti)

Massa/Centre-right still divided

Discouraged by the former allies of FdI and then victorious in the first round with 35.4% of the votes, the mayor of Massa, Francesco Persiani, 57 years old, criminal lawyer, supported by Lega, Forza Italia and civic lists, does not take a step back. «No connection with the Brothers of Italy would be inconceivable – he explains -. Not out of personal grudges against the councilors who disheartened me but for a reason of transparency towards my constituents. What would I tell them if I accepted FdI’s request? Was that all a joke? No, a political agreement to beat the left is fine but nothing more». Therefore, the already complicated political situation of Massa in the centre-right becomes even more tangled. The center-left enjoys it with the candidate Enzo Romolo Ricci which, having obtained 29.95% could also be eligible for
some protest votes by Fdi voters who voted for one of their candidates in the first round, Marco Guidi who obtained 19.9%. These days the center-right is looking for a reconciliation. But that seems far away. “Moreover, in the council I would find the same councilors, former allies, who blew up my junta”, explains mayor Persiani. In short, the political and internal wounds continue to bleed. (Marco Gasperetti)

Vicenza/The qualities of the excluded

He managed to close the first round of the Municipal elections ahead of the outgoing centre-right mayor Francis Rucco (for 46.2% to 44.1). Now Giacomo Possamai, a 33-year-old candidate for the Democratic Party, calls himself out of the “surreal acquisition campaign” of the excluded: yes to agreements, but no seat in the council, nor in addition. The former councilor of Rucco and candidate for mayor who stopped at 2.5%, Lucio Zoppello, takes up the appeal: he will support Possamai bringing the votes of the moderate center-right as a dowry. In return, the leadership of the control room on the Tav. The other former councilor of Rucco nailed to 2.6% in the first round, Claudio Cicero, could on the contrary “go home” with the promise of returning in addition.
No official support from the Five Stars, even if their 1.7% risk being irrelevant. (Stefania Chiale)

Altarpiece/Libra needle to left

The only apparent relationship is between the centre-right candidate and FI’s lawyer Daniel Silvetti (with 45.1% in the lead in the first round) and Marco Battino of Ripartiamo dai bambini, which he brings
as a dowry 948 votes (2.1%) and if Silvetti is mayor he will be part of the Council. The centre-left candidate Ida Simonella, Pd, 41.3%, has not made any agreements. The needle in the balance will be Francesco Rubini, from the left-wing list Altra Idea di Città, 6.1% and 2,660 votes. To try to seduce him, Silvetti has enlisted Floriano Bonifazi, an anti-pollution professor, while Simonella “opens” on the maritime station. Enrico Sparapani, M5S, 3.6% and 1580 preferences, will leave “freedom to vote”. Roberto Rubegni, Green Europe, 1.7% and 735 votes, alludes: “Our natural area is the centre-left…”. It remains to convince 45% of abstainers in the first round.
Hard, though. (Fabrizio Caccia)

Terni/Duel without appearances

The center-left is out of the game, in the city of steel mills, already governed by the center-right: in Terni they go to the ballot Orlando Masselliformer councilor supported by the united deployment of FdI, Lega and FI, e Stefano Bandecchithe patron of Ternana football, who has shuffled the cards
running with Civic Popular Alternative. Masselli took the lead in the first round with 35.8%, against Bandecchi’s 28.1%. Eyes are focused on the choices of the voters of the excluded candidates: 21.9% who voted for Josè Maria Kenny (Pd and Verdi-Left) and 10.8 for Claudio Fiorelli (M5S and others). Positions too distant for official appearances. “I will not ask for a vote
Nobody. I will talk to the people», Bandecchi assures. And Masselli focuses on experience: «A challenge between politics and anti-politics». (Carlotta DeLeo)

Brindisi/Same sides, nuanced understandings

No appearance. Brindisi goes to the ballot with the same alignments that supported the two most supported candidates for mayor in the first round. On the one hand, the 70-year-old economist Pino Marchionna, head of a centre-right coalition (with members of Azione in una civica). On the other, the 63-year-old lawyer Roberto Fusco, pentastellato, expression of an alliance based on Pd and M5S. The first round ended with the advantage of Marchionna, 44% of the votes, against the 33.3 conquered by Fusco. The tip of the balance will be the voters who voted seven days ago for the center-right civic Pasquale Luperti (12.5%) and for the outgoing mayor Riccardo Rossi (10.1). The latter was supported only by the Verdi and Sinistra alliance, after having suffered the abandonment of the Democratic Party, as a result of the decision of the dem to ally with the M5S. The condition for the Fusco pentastellato to obtain Rossi’s support was a formal appearance that sanctioned the political dignity of the pro-
environment of the outgoing junta. But Pd and M5S were available, at the most, to recognize some positions in addition. There is also a nuanced understanding in the centre-right, however it is not excluded that Luperti will be able to make a pro Marchionna statement in the next few days. (Francesco Strippoli)

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