With the filing of the municipal lists, the race among the thousands of candidates to win one of the more than
12,600 seats
as municipal councilor up for grabs in
978 municipalities
called to vote on 12 June officially starts, a percentage equal to 12.4% of the total 7,904.
But above all, the competition of almost
1,000 mayors
to conquer the highest seat has begun.
The 12 June will be Election day
: in fact, there will be a vote for the five referendum questions on justice proposed by the Radicals and the League and admitted by the Council
ANSA agency
Elections: we also vote for the Referendum, here are the questions - Politics
Election day with the municipalities (ANSA)
The municipal electoral round involves
26 provincial capital municipalities
, 4 of which also regional capitals:
Catanzaro
,
Genoa
,
L'Aquila
and
Palermo
, the largest municipality that will go to the vote, with 657,561 inhabitants and also the largest number of voters, 552,240 .
In
Catanzaro
, where 6 candidates ran, the center-right coalition is divided: on the one hand Fi and Lega who find themselves - without name and symbol - on the positions of a civic candidate of the former Democratic Party, Valerio Donato, also supported by exponents of the center left and from Italia Viva, and from the other Fratelli d'Italia who will move alone by deploying the deputy group leader in the Chamber, Wanda Ferro.
ANSA agency
Municipal: in Catanzaro, 6 candidates and 23 lists running - Calabria
Fi and Lega support former Pd, among aspiring mayors Ferro big Fdi (ANSA)
In
Genoa
there are five vying for the post of mayor.
The current center-right mayor Marco Bucci seeks confirmation already in the first round on his main opponent, Ariel Dello Strologo, the former president of the Genoese Jewish community.
Action and Italia Viva instead decided to give an indication of the vote and provide some candidates, but without inserting the symbol on the ballot.
Among the other candidates Mattia Crucioli, former M5S senator now among the leaders of L'Alternativa there is, also supported by the no green pass.
There is also a "no vax" candidate for the 3V Movement: Martino Manzano Olivieri, one of the organizers of the protests.
ANSA agency
Municipal Genoa: there are seven candidates for mayor - Liguria
In extremis, the candidates for mayor rose to seven in Genoa.
(HANDLE)
In
L'Aquila there
will be four candidates for mayors.
Pierluigi Biondi is the outgoing and reappointed mayor of the center-right coalition that runs united, while the opponents split: the center-left candidate, Stefania Pezzopane, deputy of the Democratic Party, and the civic candidate of the center-left area, Americo Di Benedetto of the civic Legnini President.
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Municipal: L'Aquila;
4 candidates for mayor and 16 lists in the field - Abruzzo
There will be four candidates for mayors and 16 lists for about 500 candidates who will compete in the local elections on 12 June, in L'Aquila, the largest city among the 48 municipalities voting in this electoral round in Abruzzo: the mayor ... ( HANDLE)
In
Parma
, after ten years, the Five Star Movement disappears from the file, precisely in that city that first saw it triumph in the government of a municipal administration.
Almost all of the activists in fact passed with the mayor Federico Pizzarotti who, as a civic candidate, won an encore in 2017. After two terms, his dolphin, the councilor for Culture Michele Guerra, also supported by the Democratic Party, tries to conquer the Municipality , who nominates the rugby player and knight of the Republic Mbandà on the list, and by other center-left forces.
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Municipal: in Parma 12 in contention, in Piacenza six candidates - Emilia-Romagna
The deadline for the lists for the elections of 12 June expires (ANSA)
Among the well-known names who are candidates in the Venetian capitals of Verona, Padua and Belluno is the former Roma footballer
Damiano Tommasi
, challenger to the current mayor of Verona
Federico Sboarina
,
Giulio Crisanti
, 23-year-old son of the virologist, inserted in Padua in the Civic Coalition list in support of the first citizen Sergio Giordani who can also count on the support of rugby champion
Mauro Bergamasco
.
Among the candidates for mayor Angelo Salinari, under house arrest for a long time last February for stalking and corruption, a candidate for Ruoti (Potenza) of which he was already director in the past.
The accusation of stalking brought against Salinardi by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Potenza concerns alleged actions against the outgoing mayor of Ruoti, Anna Maria Scalise.
How much the corruption allegations concern his business as an entrepreneur.
Among the curiosities Lombardy is the region with the highest number of municipalities at the polls, 128, while Argentera, in the province of Cuneo, is the municipality with the lowest number of
67 voters
and only one candidate for mayor, Monica Ciaburro, outgoing mayor, deputy of FdI and middle school teacher.
