Resounding 5 to 0 for the centre-left on the center-right that comes out with broken bones from the ballots for the 2021 administrative elections. The mayors of Milan, Naples, Bologna and now also of Rome and Turin are all progressives as are those of Varese, a former stronghold of the League, of Isernia, of Caserta , of Savona, of Latina and of Cosenza. The center-right consoles itself with the only one Trieste, where however the victory of the outgoing mayor Dipiazza was more painful than expected.
However, the absolute winner of this electoral round was abstention. In the ballots, in fact, the turnout it stopped at 43,94%. This means that less than one voter out of 2 went to vote. In the first round, 52,67% of the voters had voted.
Going back to the results, the most sought-after and most resonant victory for the centre-left is necessarily that of Rome where Roberto Gualtieri beat his centre-right rival Enrico Michetti by more than twenty points. The former economy minister obtained 60,1% of the votes against 39,9% for Michetti. The now new mayor of Rome went in front of the television cameras to thank his constituents. “Thanks to the Romans for this significant result, which I am honored by. I will put all my effort into it”, commented Gualtieri. “I will be the mayor of the Romans, of the Romans and of the whole city. An extraordinary work begins to relaunch Rome and to make it grow, to make it more inclusive and to make it work".
Result almost photocopy a Torino where Stefano Lo Russo won with 59,2% of the votes against 40,8% of the centre-right candidate Paolo Damilano.
As expected, Trieste it is the only city left on the centre-right. Roberto Dipiazza has in fact been confirmed as mayor for the fourth time with 51,3% against the 48,7% obtained by the centre-left candidate Francesco Russo.
The result is also important Varese, where the center-left has once again managed to wrest one of its traditional strongholds from the League despite Matteo Salvini having personally gone to the Lombard city several times to support his candidate, Matteo Bianchi. At the end of the day, however, the mayor is once again Davide Galimberti, with 53,2% of the votes.
As for the other capital cities:
- Benevento: Mastella (centre) 52,7% – Perifano (centre-left) 47,3%;
- Caserta: Marino (centre-left) 53,7% – Zinzi (centre-right) 47,3%;
- Cosenza: Caruso (centre-left) 57,6% – Caruso (right) 42,4%;
- Isernia: Castrataro (centre-left) 58,7% – Melogli (centre-right) 41,3%;
- Latina: Coletta (centre-left) 54,9% – Zacchaeus (centre-right) 45,1%;
- all in the province of Savona : Russo (center-left) 62,2% – Zacchaeus (center-right) 37,8%.
The results of this electoral round therefore overturn the structures of five years ago, when of the six regional capitals the centre-left managed to win only in Milan with Beppe Sala and Bologna with Virginio Merola. In 2016 the M5s imposed itself under the Mole with Chiara Appendino and in the capital with Virginia Raggi Raggi, while in Naples Luigi De Magistris won the ballot on the center-right, who also in that case conquered Trieste.
During the afternoon the results were also commented on by the leaders of the main parties. He partially admits defeat Giorgia Meloni, according to which: “the centre-right is defeated in the administrations: we are unable to wrest the big cities away from the centre-left. But from defeat to debacle, it's overkill. The debacle belongs to the M5s, the Democratic Party is celebrating on the remains of the Grillini allies ".
Instead, the secretary of the Democratic Party speaks of a "triumphal victory", Enrico Letta: “I've always learned that the most important thing is to listen to the voters. And they are ahead of us, they have merged and merged, those of the center-left and the broad coalition that I wanted to build".
(Last update: 18.58 on 18 October).
