Centre-right candidate Poalo Truzzuon Tuesday conceded defeat in the Sardinia governor's race to centre-left candidate Alessandra Todde who appears to have an unassailable lead with just a handful of polling stations still to report in.
"This morning I called Alessandra Todde and congratulated her," said Cagliari mayor Truzzu who is 0.3% behind at 45% to 45.3% with 22 of 1844 stations still to be counted.
"I told her I would see her again in the regional council.
"We really lost by a hair, about two thousand votes out of 750thousand Sardinians who went to vote.
"The responsibility for the defeat is mine alone".
"In Cagliari, there was more of a vote against me than for Todd," added the defeated mayor and centre-right candidate.
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