The polls for the second round of local elections have closed and the counting of ballots has begun. In all the provincial capitals that reached the ballot, including Rome, the Democratic Party commands, composing a result that is difficult to imagine on the eve of this electoral round and sanctioning the clear, and perhaps unexpected, defeat of the Pdl, in what was the first taste of the sentiment politician of the country after the formation of the Letta government.
In the capital, where Alemanno has already raised the bank flag at the press conference, Ignazio Marino has a clear advantage over the outgoing mayor, with 63,8% of the votes against 36,2%, while the count is nearing its end.
Winning Pd also in Sienadespite the aftermath of the MPS scandal for the first time in twenty years forcing the centre-left to take the ballot. At the end of a tighter battle, Renziano Bruno Valentini obtained 52,7% of the votes, beating Eugenio Neri by a narrow margin.
A Imperia the definitive data speaks of a clear victory for Pd Carlo Capacci. In the Scajola fiefdom, the centre-left candidate obtained over 76,1% of the votes, ahead of Pdl Annoni.
Surprise in Treviso, which in the last twenty years had been the true Northern League stronghold. The mayor sheriff Giancarlo Gentilini, mayor of the Veneto capital from 1994 to 2003 and outgoing deputy mayor, received only 44,2% of the votes, thus leaving room for the democratic candidate Giovanni Manildo.
In Lombardy, Pd firmly in the lead both in Lodi (where Simone Uggetti's victory over Giuliana Cominetti is already official) than in Brescia, where Emilio Del Bono beats the PDL candidate Adriano Paroli, with 56,6% of the votes.
The new mayor of AnconaOn the other hand, it is Valeria Mancinelli, of the centre-left, the first female mayor of the Marche capital, who largely defeated the centre-right candidate Italo D'Angelo.
The victory of the Pd seems already decided also in Avellino, Barletta and Viterbo, where centre-left candidates (about three quarters of the ballots) currently obtain around 60% of the votes, clearly ahead of their opponents. On the other hand, the situation of Iglesias is more uncertain: in the Sardinian capital, just under halfway empty, Gariazzo of the centre-left commands with 51,86%.
Turnout in decline everywhere: only 48% of eligible voters went to the polls, against 59% in the first round.
