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Sardinia, it's neck and neck: Truzzu ahead by a few hundred votes, Todde leads in Cagliari and Sassari

Fight to the last vote between Todde and Truzzu at the Regionals in Sardinia. Center-left ahead in the big cities, but center-right manages to overtake

Sardinia, it's neck and neck: Truzzu ahead by a few hundred votes, Todde leads in Cagliari and Sassari

In Sardinia è head to head between the centre-right candidate Paul Truzzu and the one supported by Pd and M5S Alessandra Todd. The counting of the regional elections, which began late, is proceeding slowly, with only 372 sections counted out of 1.844. At the moment only a few hundred votes separate the two candidates for the presidency of the Region, with Truzzu slightly ahead with 46,4% of the preferences compared to Todde's 44,9%. Renato Soru, leader of the Sardinian Coalition, is at 7,8%, while Lucia Chessa of Sardigna R-exists at 0,9%. 

Todde ahead in Cagliari and Sassari

In the cities the center-left is ahead. Cagliari Alessandra Todde leads Paolo Truzzu by almost 20 points. With over 40% of sections counted (71 out of 173), the centre-left candidate obtained 53.43%, more than 5 thousand votes ahead, while the mayor of the city and leader of the centre-right coalition achieved 34.28%. Soru is at 10,75%, Chessa at 1,54%. Result almost photocopy a Sassari where, with 59 sections scrutinized out of 140, Todde leads the way with 53,06% of the preferences compared to Truzzu's 37,74%.

The first comments

“With the data we are still very far from being able to express definitive assessments, but we can record some things: there was a popular reaction of the Sardinian people, there was a popular conscience that was awakened. The data that is reaching us is encouraging, a sign of discontinuity compared to the past,” M5s senator Ettore Licheri commented to LaPresse. 

«We never thought it was a walk in the park or an obvious victory for us, but it is profiling a head to head”, he said of FdI deputy Salvatore Deidda who arrived at the headquarters of the electoral committee of the centre-right presidential candidate, Paolo Truzzu. “New data is arriving that is changing the first ones. We are winning – the Sardinian parliamentarian – in many sections of the Cagliari hinterland, in Sarrabus, in the Oristano area, in Gallura, in the Sassari area”. 

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