Todde says Sardinia responded to batons with pencils. Newly elected centre-left Sardinia governor Alessandra Todde of the leftist populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) She said that Sardinians had responded to last Friday's allegedly excessive use of truncheons in the policing of a peaceful pro-Palestinian studentdemonstration in Pisa.
She said she would also go to Abruzzo to campaign for March 10 regional elections there in which the PD- M5S 'broad field' will face another test of its ability to defeat the nationally dominant right-centre-right coalition.