The final results of the elections in Molise, with the victory of the centre-Corriere.it

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CAMPOBASSO – We have not won, we have swept away, this is the victory of the centre-right, not only united but also extended, rejoices Francesco Roberti, 56, the new governor of Molise, who has always been a force supporter, deeply in love with Berlusconi to whom he is now dedicating the triumph, but who he also blatantly thanks Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda – Italia viva and Azione – who supported him together with FdI, Lega, FI, Udc and two civic lists and who knows now what effect this vote will have on future scenarios. At the end of the ballot, Roberti will have collected 62.3%.The coordinator of FI and deputy prime minister also rejoices, Antonio Tajani: The first electoral result of the center-right and Forza Italia after the death of President Berlusconi honors his memory.

On the other hand, here is Roberto Gravina, 46, the M5S mayor of Campobasso, who last Friday had an aperitif here at the Otter bar with the leader Giuseppe Conte, the secretary of the Pd Elly Schlein and the leader of the Italian Left Nicola Fratoianni, for the truth that from the polls in Molise the coveted wide shot really came out with broken bones: just 36.3%. Gravina, however, a gentleman lawyer, first compliments Roberti, then searches within himself for some hope: We have laid the foundations for an expanded project. But the center-right has built an alliance that has worked better. Alongside the new governor Claudio Lotito who arrived from Rome, the president of Lazio was elected senator in Molise with Forza Italia at the latest Policies. Silvio Berlusconi, the day before he died, called me to find out how things were going in Molise – he says -. I reassured him by telling him that we would get double digits and he was happy. The victory dedicated to him.

Lotito, last Friday, together with the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini and the deputy minister of FdI Galeazzo Bignami had gone to close the electoral campaign in the city administered by Roberti, Termoli. And the mayor just that evening had decided to revive the old local Christian Democrat tradition of rallies from the balcony in Piazza Duomolucky rallies inaugurated by Girolamo La Penna, the one who brought Fiat to Termoli, mayor from ’57 to ’75 and in Parliament for over 30 years, until 1994. So everyone on the balcony. He did well this time too. In reality, it is anything but tradition: to win Roberti entrusted himself to a strategic political consultancy firm, the Spin Factor, which studied the campaign from start to finish, up to the slogan Molise in good hands playing on his engineering profession. In a few years he thus became mayor of Termoli, president of the Province of Campobasso and now governor: My treble, he jokes.

If he won, however, he certainly owes it to the final imprimatur of the man who always has the last word in Molise: Aldo Patriciello, the powerful MEP, director of every electoral pact, in the past also an ally of the Democratic Party. With the list of his Il Molise that we want, Patriciello now seems to be looking with interest at the center and so perhaps the Action-Iv vote is not so casual. Molise, the jokes are made here, is not a region, a condominium, because everyone knows each other and everyone only votes for friends and relatives. Thus, with 140 candidates in the running, it was a mostly controlled vote, because the absolute majority was actually taken by the abstention party: over 50% of people from Molise did not go to vote in two days. A clear sign of resignation.

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