Alessandra Todde is the first female governor in Sardinia and the first regional president of the M5s. The outcome of the count says that the pact not only holds but manifests itself as a governing force.

Romano Prodi, father of the Ulivo, has no doubts: "The more the centre-left unites, the more it wins, there is nothing we can do. It also won by discounting a diaspora (Renato Soru's solitary run, ed.), which was less successful than expected, but it was there"