"Since the Italians chose this new government there have been seven regional elections, we have won six out of seven, I am satisfied."
The deputy prime minister and minister, Matteo Salvini, said this to Quarta Repubblica, underlining that he is happy both as deputy prime minister and as leader of the League.
As the League "we got 43 thousand votes and Marsilio won with the 43 thousand votes from the League. We were determined for the victory in Abruzzo", explained Salvini.
President-elect Marco Marsilio watering supporters and journalists with sparkling wine in his Pescara committee, just three hours after the polls closed.
The defeated Luciano D'Amico who waits until the morning to make mea culpa and analyze the defeat.
Two images that tell a clear result.
The citizens of Abruzzo confirm the outgoing president for the first time in the history of the Region.
The centre-right candidate wins with 53.5% of the votes.
Seven points behind the challenger D'Amico, a candidate from the very wide field who hoped for a comeback until the end.
Video Meloni: 'It doesn't matter how wide the pitch is but how cohesive it is'
After weeks spent with the spotlight of national politics shining on them, the time has come for both to take stock.
With the closest circle and representatives of the territory.
From Rome, however, cheers and encouragement come.
Testimony to the fact that a political match of national importance was played in the Adriatic region.
THE PODCAST ON THE REGIONAL ELECTIONS IN ABRUZZO
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni thanks Abruzzo and the centre-right, and greets with "proud" the re-election of her loyalist.
She who five years ago brought Fratelli d'Italia to the leadership of a region for the first time.
On the other hand, the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein defends the broad field: "by joining our forces we have reopened the game".
That the very broad centre-left coalition has at least worried its opponents is evident from the tense faces in Marsilio's committee until the publication of the first exit poll.
"Anxiety" admitted by the re-elected president himself.
Then enthusiasm gives way, up to the cry of joy.
"The wide field doesn't exist, the wide field doesn't exist!", chant the Youth National boys, celebrating Marsilio's arrival.
And he insists: "the wide field will not be the future of Italy".
Meloni echoes him: "it doesn't matter how wide the pitch is, but how cohesive it is".
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The prime minister recovers a strong point of the electoral campaign and adds: "the center-right has been rewarded for good governance".
The Prime Minister chooses not to rush to L'Aquila for Marsilio's press conference, but she sits at lunch with the two deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani at Palazzo Chigi.
The centre-right, after losing Sardinia, rejoices at having gained consensus in Abruzzo compared to the last electoral round.
But there are different feelings among the main parties of the coalition.
Satisfaction among Fratelli d'Italia, which confirms itself as the first party with 24%.
Enthusiasm in Forza Italia, which with 13.4% stands as the second center-right party in the Region, almost doubling the League.
"A real novelty" emerged from the Abruzzo vote, comments leader Tajani.
Which relaunches: it is the "definitive" confirmation of the "centrality" of Fi.
So the message sounds in view of the European elections: "we aim to exceed 10%".
For Tajani, the overtaking to the detriment of the League "does not change anything" in the internal balance of the coalition.
For further information ANSA Agency Those elected to the Abruzzo Regional Council, promoted and failed - News - Ansa.it Only three women, 19 confirmed, except former health councilor Verì (ANSA)
And Salvini makes no comments on the results in Abruzzo, where his party, stuck at 7.5%, loses around 120 thousand votes compared to 2019. "I avoid talking about the roller coaster of the vote", the governor limits himself to saying Luca Zaia.
In the center-left, regret prevails for not having managed to gain ground among the disappointed.
For D'Amico, the abstention of "two out of four Abruzzo citizens is the most painful defeat".
But he doesn't give up and relaunches the "extraordinary" experience of the wide field.
For Schlein, the "not yet sufficient" result in Abruzzo is an incentive to continue "building a solid alternative capable of competing with the right".
For further information ANSA Agency In the L'Aquila area Marsilio wins with a difference of 43 thousand votes - News - Ansa.it His opponent D'Amico prevailed only in 10 out of 108 municipalities (ANSA)
In the Democratic Party, which confirms its second place with 20%, the belief prevails that the centre-left will emerge strengthened by the race to support D'Amico.
For Carlo Calenda of Azione, who stands at 4%, in the territories it is "better to be in an alliance than to stay on the sidelines".
Even Angelo Bonelli of Europa Verde, who in tandem with Sinistra Italiana stops at 3.5%, pushes on the "road of unity".
The 5 Star Movement, however, is for now dealing with its performance.
"We note the modest result of the M5s - comments the leader Giuseppe Conte - which pushes us to work with ever greater force on our project of rooting in the territories".
The Five Star Movement stopped at 7%, with two thirds of votes less than in 2019, when they were almost 120 thousand.
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