Alessandra Todde conquers the large cities of Sardinia - Cagliari, Sassari and Quartu Sant'Elena, the top three by number of inhabitants - in addition to her native Nuoro, where she wins by a landslide with 54%;
Paolo Truzzu wins in the centre-right strongholds, Olbia with Gallura, Oristano but also Alghero, but is heavily defeated in his city, Cagliari, where he has been mayor since July 2019.
He is the main photograph of the vote in Sardinia, when not yet all the 1,844 sections were scrutinized.
Renato Soru with the Sardinian Coalition, third and at risk of exclusion from the Regional Council due to the barrier foreseen by the Sardinian electoral law (10% for coalitions and 5% for individual lists), smiles in Nuoro - where among the candidates in the coalition there was the mayor Andrea Soddu - with over 11.6% and in Oristano with 11.9%.
The founder of Tiscali, who governed Sardinia from 2014 to 2019 and was then defeated by Ugo Cappellacci of the centre-right, obtained few votes in the coastal centres, where he was highly criticized for the regional landscape plan he introduced and for the tax on yachts, which ended up penalizing the Sardinian ports.
In Arzachena, the municipality of the Costa Smeralda, but also in Castelsardo the former secretary of the Sardinian Democratic Party stands at 3%.
Alghero and Ogliastra instead fail it.
For the independent candidate Lucia Chessa, with the Sardigna R-esiste list, originally from Bitti and mayor of Austis for 10 years, the best results come from the Nuoro constituency.
In Bitti (where Truzzu wins with 64.1% and Todde stops at 22%) Lucia Chessa comes close to 5%, but it is in Austis that she achieves the exploit with over 24%.
In Gallura, a stronghold of the centre-right, the result of Golfo Aranci stands out, a coastal municipality a stone's throw from Olbia, where the centre-right triumphs with 81.1% led by the Reformers, the party which fields the former mayor Giuseppe Fasolino among its candidates , outgoing regional councilor for planning, with 49.3%.
For Truzzu, mayor still in office, the Cagliari debacle weighs heavily.
Only 34% of the preferences against Todde's 53%.
After voting, Truzzu went to the stadium to follow his beloved Cagliari (in his youth he had also been an ultras of the Curva) but the relationship with the city has cooled in recent times, above all due to the many construction sites opened at the same time and which they effectively paralyzed the center.
Truzzu promised a more beautiful city, and it will certainly be one when all the work is finished, but for months the discontent of traders has reigned - many forced to lower their shutters due to lack of customers - and motorists enraged by the chaotic traffic that Cagliari had never had view.
Five years ago Christian Solinas' victory was clear, with 47.8%, but not total.
On the regional 'map', the centre-left challenger Massimo Zedda had managed to gain first position in several centres, including two provincial capitals, Cagliari (where he was mayor) and Nuoro.
Solinas, however, had been particularly strong in the north and south-east of the island.
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