Roberto Gualtieri Lapresse
Here we are. On Sunday and Monday we vote for the ballots and the eyes of politics and the Palazzo are almost all focused on the main challenges of Rome and Turin. The electoral campaign was quite muted, "distracted" by the Forza Nuova assault on the CGIL headquarters last Saturday and the endless controversy over the entry into force, from today, of the mandatory Green Pass in all workplaces. In the Democratic Party this morning there is great optimism on the outcome of the challenges in the capital and in the Lombard capital. According to the sentiments that are breathed between the deputies and the Dem senators, in Rome Roberto Gualtieri should easily recover the three abundant points of detachment from Enrico Michetti thanks to a large part - not all of course - of the votes that went to Carlo Calenda and Virginia in the first round. Rays.
The reasoning they make in the Pd house is simple: the leader of Action said he will vote for the former Minister of Economy, as well as Giuseppe Conte, and, despite the resistance of the now former mayor to a strategic center-left alliance, the hope is that about 60% of the two electorates will choose Gualtieri on Sunday and Monday. Only a small part, always explain sources of the Nazarene, should move to the candidate of the Center-right and the remainder end up in abstention. The only hope for Michetti, the Brothers of Italy retort, is that there is an unlikely and surprising participation in the vote in particular in the peripheral areas of the capital (especially South Rome), given that the central and affluent areas, where the first round the turnout was higher, they tend to vote with a majority center-left.
As for Turin, the Dems are moderately optimistic about Stefano Lo Russo's victory, although perhaps not with a large difference on Paolo Damilano. In the first round, Valentina Sganga of the 5 Stars collected about 9% of the votes and - explain Pd sources - "at least half of those votes should choose the Center-left and very few the Center-right". Also in the Piedmontese capital Lega and FdI are hoping for a massive turnout and exceed that of 3-4 October to try to recover thanks in particular to the vote of the peripheral areas. The Center-right is instead optimistic about the success, not large, in Trieste where in the first round Roberto Dipiazza came clearly in the lead on Francesco Russo, former senator of the Democratic Party.