Open from 7 am the polling stations for the annual round of administrative, municipal and district elections. The polling stations will remain open today until 23 pm and tomorrow, Monday 15, they will be open from 7 am to 15 pm. Immediately afterwards the counting of the ballots will begin.
While the vote is in progress, the partial turnout figure is recorded at 19 pm. At more than half of the polling stations, the turnout was about 37%. A figure down by about 7 points given that at the previous administrative consultations at 19 pm 44% had voted.
The eventual ballot for the direct election of mayors is scheduled for Sunday 28 and Monday 29 May. In Sicily and Sardinia voting takes place on 28 and 29 May, in Trentino and Valle d'Aosta on 21. A total of 6.3 million Italians will be able to vote to elect the mayor in 790 municipalities - 595 in the regions with ordinary statute, 195 in the special - including, today and tomorrow, in 13 provincial capitals (Ancona, Brescia, Brindisi, Imperia, Latina, Massa, Pisa, Siena, Sondrio, Teramo, Terni, Treviso and Vicenza). The only regional capital to vote is Ancona. A total of 18 voting capitals are held.
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At the start of the administrative elections, 6.3 million Italians at the polls - Special
Municipal elections will be held on 14 and 15 May. In Sicily and Sardinia voting takes place on 28 and 29, in Trentino and Valle d'Aosta on 21 © ANSA
Overall, the provincial capitals where voting is held are 18, one of which is the regional capital, Ancona. Tomorrow we vote in 13 provincial capitals (Ancona, Brescia, Brindisi, Imperia, Latina, Massa, Pisa, Siena, Sondrio, Teramo, Terni, Treviso and Vicenza). The eventual ballot is scheduled for Sunday 28 and Monday 29 May (Trentino and Valle d'Aosta on 4 June, Sicily and Sardinia on 11 and 12 June). Seven of the capitals are currently governed by the center-right and five by the center-left, while Latina is governed by a prefectural commissioner after the fall, last year, of the center-left administration led by Damiano Colletta.
Alliances to the test, therefore, with the unknown abstentionism, constantly growing in the last consultations. In fact, 2022% of those entitled to vote voted in the June 54 administrative elections, 5.4% less voters went to the polls compared to the previous round. Pd and M5S are allies in 4 capitals (Latina, Pisa, Brindisi and Teramo); Azione and Italia Viva in 6 (Brescia, Vicenza, Ancona, Pisa, Treviso, Brindisi); the government majority splits only in Massa where Fdi expresses its candidate different from that of the League, Forza Italia and civic lists. In Ancona - the outgoing mayor is Laura Mancinelli (Pd) - Ida Simonella (center-left) and Daniele Silvetti (center-right) are challenged, while the 5 Star Movement supports Enrico Sparapani (RPT: Enrico Sparapani). In addition to Latina (where the outgoing Coletta is running again), the situation is also anomalous in Massa, where the center-right mayor Francesco Persiani - the first in the history of the city - was dismissed last March 1. He is a candidate for this round with Lega, Forza Italia and civic lists; Fratelli d'Italia, however, supports another name, Marco Guidi.
The center-left tries to win back Massa with Enzo Romolo Ricci. The two main opposition forces in Parliament are united in 3 cities: in Pisa there is a convergence between Pd, M5S and United Left in support of Paolo Martinelli, who challenges the outgoing mayor, center-right, Michele Conti; also in Teramo Pd and Cinquestelle together behind the outgoing mayor, Gianguido D'Alberto; Carlo Antonetti challenges him for the center-right. In Brindisi neither the center-right nor the center-left have managed to express unitary candidates. Pd and M5s will support Roberto Fusco, while the outgoing mayor Riccardo Rossi is supported by a single list: Brindisi Bene Comune - Alleanza Verdi Sinistra.
For the center-right, Giuseppe Marchionna is the candidate of Forza Italia, Fratelli D'Italia and Lega, while Pasquale Luperti is supported by Movimento Regione Salento and Equality citizen. Curiosity in Imperia, where the outgoing center-right Claudio Scajola, former Minister of the Interior, is challenged - for the center-left - by the deputy police commissioner Ivan Bracco, who since 2010 has investigated Scajola for six different investigations, all filed except one, the one in which the politician would have favored the fugitive of the former deputy of Fi Amedeo Matacena (in the first instance he was sentenced to 2 years). The only party present everywhere with a list is the Democratic Party, the others are not present in at least one municipality.
Ballot boxes open Sunday from 7.00 to 23 and Monday from 7 to 15. Immediately after the turnout is verified, the counting will begin.
