The center-left conquers Rome with Roberto Gualtieri and Turin with Stefano Lo Russo in the second round in the 2021 municipal elections, completing the five major cities that began two weeks ago with Milan, Bologna and Naples. The center-right preserves Trieste. The results of October 18 bring down the curtain on the administrative offices that hand over the capital to Roberto Gualtieri in particular.
ROME
Gualtieri collects the inheritance of Virginia Raggi and becomes the new mayor of Rome, winning the ballot with 60.15% and clearly winning the challenge with Enrico Michetti, a center-right candidate who stops at 39.85%.
“Thank you very much, to the Romans and the Romans for this significant result. I am honored for the trust. I will give it my all”, says Gualtieri, who gives the first indications on the junta: “It will be a team of great quality, we are working on it. and we will communicate it “. In the team, no involvement of Calenda or the M5S: “I will talk with everyone but what I said in the electoral campaign is valid about the junta”, that is, no appearances are expected.
TURIN
Net success of the center left also in Turin. In the shadow of the Mole, Stefano Lo Russo wins 59.23% of the votes in the ballot, clearly detaching Paolo Damilano; the center-right candidate does not go beyond 40.77%. “It was a result beyond expectations, an important outcome that makes us very responsible”, says Lo Russo.
“On Monday 25 October I will announce the council. The goal is to try to restart Turin, I am open to everyone’s collaboration” he reiterates, adding that “now my first task will be to be inclusive and to support requests from both those who did not vote for me and of those who did not go to the polls “.
TRIESTE
Roberto Dipiazza is confirmed mayor of Trieste for the fourth time. The center-right candidate wins with 51.29% of the votes, winning the balanced challenge with Francesco Russo, who reaches 48.71%. “It is a great satisfaction – says the mayor to reporters – and it is also important to bring forward an extraordinary moment for the city, given that we have a lot of Pnrr resources to invest”.
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The Democratic Party, at the end of the day, celebrates a “triumphal victory”, as the secretary Enrico Letta says. “We have gone beyond all expectations”. “We win anyway, both where the center-right had guessed the candidates and where they hadn’t hit them”, he adds, widening the discussion to the victories obtained in Latina and Varese. The Democratic Party wins “with percentages of 60%, in the suburbs as in the metropolis. The Democratic Party, strengthened, is no longer the party of the Ztl”, points out Letta, who in the next few hours will set foot in Parliament as a deputy.
“With this overwhelming result we would have an interest in going to the vote, because the Democratic Party in Parliament is underrepresented. But I say instead that this vote strengthens the Draghi government and we ask the government to go ahead”, he clarifies.
MELONS
In the center right it is time to analyze the defeat. “The center-right comes out defeated in these administrative elections, we are all aware of that”, says Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy. “We confirm Trieste, but we are unable to snatch the other 5 big cities from the center-left. The defeat requires a thorough evaluation by the center-right, Fratelli d’Italia has a particular responsibility and does not intend to shirk. We will have to think coldly, but some evaluations do. they can be hot, “he says. There has already been a telephone contact with Matteo Salvini, soon there will also be a general meeting with Silvio Berlusconi.
SALVINI
In the circles of the League it is also reflected on the very high abstention rate. “We would have preferred to win in Rome, the citizens are always right when they choose, but the data to think about is the non-vote, which in some neighborhoods has exceeded 70%”, says Matteo Salvini.
“If one is elected mayor by a minority of a minority it is a problem not for a party, but for democracy”. “I am thinking – says the leader of the Northern League – of politicians and journalists, because the last month of the election campaign will be spent talking about sexual habits and fascist attacks …”.
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