Final duel, until the last vote.
Just under twenty-four hours after the end of the electoral campaign in Abruzzo, the dispute between the two sides in the race becomes heated.
For the centre-right, the ministers take to the field in support of the candidate Marco Marsilio.
And they travel the length and breadth of the Region to achieve a historic result: reconfirming the outgoing president.
In the centre-left, however, it is time for a united match with the two heavyweights of the Democratic Party on stage in Pescara to sound the charge.
"United we win" is the slogan of the secretary Elly Schlein and the president Stefano Bonaccini, together again in a public event.
"And when the Democratic Party is united, the center-left is also stronger", relaunches the president of Emilia Romagna.
And it is precisely the so-called "wide field" that today decides to drop the ace a few hours before the vote.
While rallies and electoral trajectories intersect between the four provinces of the Region, the thrust comes from Rome: the opposition launches "together a popular initiative law to re-propose the Minimum Wage in Parliament".
The leaders of the Pd, M5s, Verdi-Left, Action, +Europa and Psi signed the note.
Who launch the challenge to the government: "let's see if it will have the courage to bury a law signed by hundreds of thousands of citizens".
The only thing missing from the common initiative is Italia Viva, which however is running in the very large field in the Abruzzo version.
The party led by Matteo Renzi, however, had not even supported the parliamentary initiative of the parties that are now asking for citizens' support.
"We will collect signatures in all the cities and also online - explain the leaders - to affirm a right enshrined constitutionally but betrayed in the country and by the Meloni government".
Schlein, from the stage in Pescara, speaks with satisfaction of an "important fact": "we have decided to relaunch our united battle".
A concept supported by Giuseppe Conte who states "let's not give up".
The word unity is the common thread that ran through the entire electoral campaign of the center-left in support of D'Amico.
Word that is forcefully relaunched by the two leaders of the Democratic Party who pose next to the candidate who in Abruzzo has managed to bring together all the forces of a coalition that does not exist at a national level.
Action leader Carlo Calenda reiterated this: "he does not believe that these coalitions will be able to govern Italy".
For the former minister, "there is no broad field", but only convergence on an "excellent candidate".
The leader of the M5s, however, seems to open: "we are building an alternative government, we will go into government with the Democratic Party".
Also for Schlein, the vote in the Region "is from the Abruzzo people for the Abruzzo people".
However, the democratic leader does not give up looking further ahead: "we will continue to be stubbornly united".
"In all territories - she explains - we are trying to give ourselves this method of openness and unitary construction".
And the unit, the Democratic Party, seems to have found it again on stage, after the internal disagreement over the third mandate.
Bonaccini reminds Schlein of the past: "we no longer want those seasons in which wars were waged in the Democratic Party and the victories of the right came from our divisions".
She replies: "the Democratic Party is moving together".
The two leaders arrive together in the square in Pescara.
In the middle is the candidate.
On stage they perform a dance on Italodisco.
"There is enthusiasm," says Bonaccini.
Schlein is convinced she will win.
The Dem president speaks of "nervousness and concern" in the center-right in view of the vote.
And he lashes out against "the lack of institutional respect of the government that deploys the ministers" in the Abruzzo countryside.
The M5s leader warns: "if Marsilio lost it would certainly be a hard blow for Meloni".
The government ministers in the field in Abruzzo, however, do not respond to the provocations.
Casellati, Locatelli, Valditara and Lollobrigida are on the issues of competence.
They look straight ahead.
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini introduces something new and launches a "housing plan" on which he is working on "100 thousand new homes available to Italians, a 300 million euro plan for municipalities with less than 5 thousand inhabitants".
One more day for the final sparks.
The game is open.
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