Will Roma to give the real sign in the local elections in October, where the challenge for the conquest of the Capitol remains very open. To play with it, the indecipherable candidate of the centre-right, Enrico Michetti, which in the first round collected the 30,1% of the votes, and the former minister of the Democratic Party, Roberto Gualtieri, who took the 27% of the votes. Instead, the much-contested Grillina mayor leaves the scene, Virginia Rages, ironically baptized as "The lady of the wild boars", which remained under 20% with hers 10,09% finished in fourth place and has been overtaken in the last tallies since centrist leader of Action, Carlo Calenda, which reached the Present in several = 19,8% with an exploit of no small importance, which however was not enough to get to the ballot.
The outcome of the ballot of 17 and 18 October remains uncertain and a lot will also depend on the participation in the vote, which in the first round was very disappointing and which in Rome it was even below 50% with a turnout that was only del Present in several = 48,8%. But now another game begins: if Michetti wins, wanted at all costs by Giorgia Meloni, the center-right will be able to conquer the capital and partially compensate for the loud debacle remedied in Milan, Bologna and Naples. If, on the contrary, the former economy minister, Gualtieri, were to win, it would be a triumph of national value for the Democratic Party. Conversely, the defeat in Rome would be traumatic for both the centre-right and the Democratic Party and would have many general political repercussions.
Ma Who will Calenda and Raggi's votes go to? The leader of Azione has put his hands forward by saying that he will let people know how he will vote in the ballot, but that he will not make any alliance or affiliation with the two candidates out of respect for the voters of the right, center and left who voted for him and who did not they would like a transfer in one field or the other. As for the Rays, it is necessary distinguish the orientation of the outgoing mayor from that of the Five Stars: among Conte's trendy grillini, the main propensity is to vote for the Democratic Party and therefore for Gualtieri, but Raggi did not like the attacks she received in the electoral campaign and it is unlikely that she will side with the candidate of the Democratic Party.
The next two weeks will therefore be closely contested, because whoever conquers Rome in some way reserves victory for the next few weeks elections, even if in the middle there is the election of the new President of the Republic, the fate of the Draghi government - which appears to have been strengthened since the first administrative round - and a possible new electoral law.
On Sunday and Monday, the sovereignty of Salvini and Meloni took a hit and the exploit of Calenda and the success of the Democratic Party instead signal a new desire for reformism in the country, but the games remain open and the contestability of the Capital warns that the final outcome remains uncertain.
