Livorno to the Five Stars, Padua to the League, the Democratic Party also loses Perugia and Potenza but snatches important cities from the center-right: Bergamo, Biella, Cremona, Verbania, Pescara, Vercelli and Pavia. Polls closed yesterday at 23pm in the 148 Municipalities that went to vote for the ballot round in the administrative elections. The polls reopened this morning only in the 8 voting municipalities in Sicily, while in the rest of Italy the counting operations began. The turnout for the ballot was 49,5% in the 139 centers called to vote again to elect the mayor (the figure released by the Viminale does not take into account the municipal elections in progress in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Sicily). In the first round, on 25 May, the turnout was 70,6%. The drop was therefore more than twenty points.
A Livorno, the city that baptized the PCI and which since the post-war period had always entrusted its fate to the leadership of the left, won Filippo Nogarin, candidate for the 5 Star Movement, with a quiet electoral campaign. M5S also won in Civitavecchia, Lazio.
A Padova the other clamorous defeat of the Democratic Party, which has governed the city since 1993, with a stoppage between 1999 and 2004. The centre-left candidate Ivo Rossi, who has led the city since former mayor Flavio Zanonato became Minister for Development Economical, he lost the challenge against Massimo Bitonci, supported by Ln and Fi.
The center-right has also won back Teramo, who already governed, with Maurizio Brucchi. TO Potenza Dario De Luca, exponent of the Brothers of Italy in the center-right coalition won: the center-left's defeat was sensational, whose candidate, Luigi Petrone, from the Democratic Party, had come close to winning the first round.
The Democratic Party managed to confirm itself a Modena, where Giancarlo Muzzarelli (Pd), also close to victory in the first round, beat his M5S opponent Marco Bortolotti, who was able to count on the support of the Northern League, the Brothers of Italy and the Nuovo Centro Destra of the Modenese Carlo Giovanardi .
Confirmation of the Democratic Party also a Terni and Bari, where the new mayor is Antonio Decaro. The premier's party then managed to snatch Vercelli, Verbania, Cremona, Biella, Pescara, Foggia and Bergamo in the centre-right. In the latter city, Matteo Renzi's former spin doctor, Giorgio Gori, defeated the outgoing mayor, Franco Tentorio. In Verbania and Vercelli two women prevailed: Silvia Marchionini and Maura Forte.
Another important clash, that of Pavia, where Carlo Cattaneo, outgoing center-right mayor, one of the youngest and most loved in Italy, lost the match against Massimo Depaoli (Pd). In general, in the 139 municipalities voting, about a third went to the centre-right, two-thirds to the centre-left.
