In Abruzzo it is neck and neck between the outgoing governor Marco Marsilio, supported by the centre-right, and Luciano D'Amico, who is running for the wide field.
According to the first exit poll, by Noto for Rete 8, Marsilio would still have a slight advantage, with a figure that fluctuates between 48.7% and 52.7%, while D'Amico's result is between 47.3 % and 51.3%.
The centre-right coalition is given between 49.7% and 53.7%, the broad camp between 46.3% and 50.3%.
Video Polls open in Abruzzo at 7am, voting until 11pm
What has focused the attention of national politics on Abruzzo was above all the dynamics of the latest elections, in particular those in Sardinia, with the somewhat surprising victory of the broad candidate, Alessandra Todde, who until recently vote was given at a clear disadvantage.
Same story in Abruzzo, with the polls recording a gradual narrowing of the distance between the favorite Marsilio and the "challenger" D'Amico.
Also for this reason, attention was focused throughout the day on the turnout data.
Because especially the broad camp has placed a lot of bets on the possibility of convincing the undecided, those who had abstention in mind: the higher the number of voters - was therefore the reasoning - the higher the chances of a victory for D'Amico will be.
During the day, however, the data did not reassure the broad field too much: at 12 pm the turnout was 15.8%, an increase compared to the regional elections in 2019 but only by 2%.
At 7pm it was 43.93%, about 1% more than in 2019.
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As happened in Sardinia, all the national leaders also arrived in Abruzzo for the electoral campaign, including a fair number of ministers.
For the centre-right, the prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini and the secretary of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani, as well as Lorenzo Cesa (UDC) and Maurizio Lupi (We Moderates) showed up together in Pescara.
Like it or not, the leaders of the wide field also followed the same pattern as in Sardinia: all involved, but each on their own, because D'Amico, like Todde, wanted to give a regional imprint to the challenge.
Thus both the president of the M5S Giuseppe Conte and the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein and the leader of Action Carlo Calenda made electoral tours, but with separate agendas.
Todde also arrived in Abruzzo to support D'Amico.
Unlike the Sardinian one, in Abruzzo the vote was a dive into the purest bipolarism.
Not only because there were only two candidates, without any other inconveniences: for example, in Sardinia Renato Soru, supported by Calenda and Matteo Renzi, was still a thorn in the side of the Pd and M5s, while in Abruzzo, D'Amico has the support from Pd, M5s, Verdi-Left and also from Action and IV, with Più Europa and the socialists.
But above all because the electoral system provides for a clear vote, without that possibility of disjunction which in Sardinia favored the broad camp, with many voters who put the cross on the centre-right symbols and then on the name of Todde.
As the data from the count in Abruzzo becomes more refined, the parties will also be able to evaluate weights and balances of power within the coalitions: in the centre-right the League hopes to hold its position, while Forza Italia aims to overtake it and FdI to increasingly consolidate its primacy.
In the broad field the game is on the leadership of the possible alliance: in Sardinia the Democratic Party overtook the M5s, but in Abruzzo, in the last regional elections and in the 2022 political elections, the M5s obtained better results than the Democratic Party.
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