Truzzu says will weigh recount request after court ruling. Truzzu lost by about 0.3% to the center left's AlessandraTodde, a bigwig in the leftist populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) The FdI says there were irregularities in voting in a small town near Sassari in the north of the island and another small town in southern Sardinia.

   "In Cagliari alone there were 1,000 spoiled ballots," said themayor.