In Cagliari "more than a third of the Northern League voters voted for Alessandra Todde".
This is the estimate contained in the Cattaneo institute's analysis of the results of the latest regional elections in Sardinia.
The study, however, defines "the share of Northern League voters who defected" as "marginal" in Sassari.
If in Cagliari it is estimated that of the 3.6% of the votes received by the League list, 1.5% went to support Todde as president (and 2.1% Paolo Truzzu), in Sassari the percentage for Todde - 2.6 % to the list - drops to 0.3%.
The institute states that the data collected "do not allow a definitive answer to the question regarding the weight of the 'betrayals' of which, according to a widespread conjecture, the voters of the League are accused".
He then points out that "it would be improper to attribute" the responsibility for Truzzu's defeat "solely to the dissenting Northern League votes.
The analysis reveals that in both Sassari and Cagliari there were contributions to the centre-left candidate of an overall equal or greater size also coming from the electorates of other centre-right parties".
Todde, in fact, emerges as "the only candidate who transversally intercepts votes coming from voters on the lists of other coalitions.
She obtains votes both from voters of the 'third pole' led by Renato Soru and from voters of centre-right parties".
The conclusion is that the Sardinian result, in its unexpected conclusion, "is mainly due to the characteristics glimpsed by the voters in the two main candidates, and above all by the personal attractiveness of the new president, strengthened by the strong understanding and convinced support of the Sardinian Democratic Party".
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