Regionals in Lombardy, the request of the League: “Election day on February 12 and 13 together with Lazio”

The federal council of the League, having listened to the opinions of the governor of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana and the regional coordinator of the party Fabrizio Cecchettiunanimously “deems it desirable to merge the Lombardy regional elections with those of Lazio scheduled for 12 and 13 February 2023”. Thus sources of the Carroccio while the meeting in via Bellerio in Milan is still in progress.

So the countdown has begun. With the League aiming to anticipate the vote in Lombardy as much as possible: a precise strategy to try not to give the advantage of an overly long electoral campaign not only to Pierfrancesco Majorino, the Pd MEP chosen by the centre-left as candidate for president, but also to Letizia Moratti, Fontana’s former deputy supported by the Third Pole.

Also for this reason, the regional council has just approved the amendment to the electoral law: from now on, the governor will be able to set the date for the vote no earlier than 30 days before the natural end of the legislature and no later than 60 days after or on Sunday included in the additional six days. For Lombardy, this translates precisely into a time window between Sunday 5 February and Sunday 7 May 2023.