There are 1,342 Italian municipalities that on 3-4 October ( in Sardinia on 10 and 11 ) will go to the polls to choose the new mayor and the new city council.
Also the residents of the main Italian cities at the polls, for a test of important value also from the point of view of national politics.
In MILAN, outgoing mayor Beppe Sala , supported by the Democratic Party and the center-left, is seeking re-election. To challenge him, supported by Fdi, Lega and Forza Italia, Luca Bernardo , doctor at the head of the Maternal-Infantile department of the Fatebenefratelli hospital.
In the Lombard capital, the 5 Star Movement deploys the manager Layla Pavone and there are also numerous other candidates in the running: Gianluigi Paragone (former grillino parliamentarian, today leader of the Italexit and Great North movement), Gabriele Mariani (Milan in the Municipality and Civic Environmentalist), Natale Azzaretto (Communist Workers' Party), Alessandro Pascale (Communist Party), Marco Muggiani (PCI), Bianca Miriam Tedone (Power to the People), Giorgio Goggi (Socialists of Milan and Liberal Milan), Mauro Festa (Gay Party), Teodosio De Bonis (3V Movement - Vaccini Vogliamo Verità) and Bryant Biavaschi (Milan starts here).
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TURIN is also voting. Chiara Appendino , outgoing mayor of the M5S, has chosen not to reappear. In the running for the seat of mayor there are therefore Paolo Damilano (FDI, Lega, FI Popola della Famiglia), Stefano Lo Russo (Pd), Valentina Sganga (M5S), Angelo D'Orsi (radical left), Greta Giusy Di Cristina (Communist Party, Torino Città Futura), Ugo Mattei (Futura Torino), Roberto Salerno (Mat-Movimento Ambientalista Torino), Ivano Verra (Italexit, Noi Cittadini), Paolo Alonge (Movimento 3V - Vaccini Vogliamo Verità), Lorenzo Varaldo ( Prohibition to Fire), Emilio Mazza (Turin Capital of Europe Basta Isee), Davide Betti Balducci (Gay Party, Italian Animalist Party) and Massimo Chiesi (Communist Workers' Party).
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Then we go to the polls in BOLOGNA . Here too the outgoing mayor Virginio Merola does not appear, passing the baton to Matteo Lepore for the center-left. Just Lepore an "experimental" candidate of the possible electoral alliance, not only to the administrative, between Pd and 5 Stelle, as the Movement has chosen to give him support, without presenting its own candidates.
The center-right fielded Fabio Battistini (FDI, Lega, FI), while the other candidates in the running are Stefano Sermenghi (Bfc and Italexit), Dora Palumbo (Left United), Marta Collot (Potere al Popolo), Andrea Tosatto (Movimento 3V - Vaccini Vogliamo Verità), Federico Bacchiocchi (Communist Workers' Party) and Luca Labanti (24 August Movement).
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There is also great expectation for the vote in ROME . Along the list of mayoral candidates in the capital. In the running is the outgoing mayor of the 5 Star Movement Virginia Raggi , who is competing for the seat with Enrico Michetti (center-right), Roberto Gualtieri (center-left) and Carlo Calenda (Action). Also in the running are Rosario Trefiletti (Italy of Values), Elisabetta Canitano (Power to the People), Micaela Quintavalle (Communist Party), Cristina Cirillo (PCI), Andrea Bernaudo (Italian Liberists), Monica Lozzi (Civic Revolution), Fabrizio Marrazzo (Party Gay), Paolo Berdini (Roma Riguarda ti), Margherita Corrado (Active Rome), Fabiola Cenciotti (People of the family), Gilberto Trombetta (Reconquering Italy), Luca Teodori (Movimento 3V - Vaccini we want the truth), Giuseppe Cirillo ( Party of Good Manners), Francesco Grisolia (Revolutionary Left), Gian Luca Gismondi (MIS - Movimento Idea Sociale), Sergio Iacomoni (Movimento Storico Romano) and Paolo Oronzo Mogli (Movimento Libertas).
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Finally NAPLES . There will be no outgoing mayor Luigi De Magistris , but there will be Gaetano Manfredi (PD, M5S), Antonio Bassolino (Bassolino for Naples, Con Napoli, Bassolino mayor, Naples and Naples, Bassolino mayor), Catello Maresca (Lega, FDI, Fi ), Matteo Brambilla (M5S), Alessandra Clemente (Potere al Popolo, Civica 20-30, Alessandra Clemente mayor, Communist Refoundation, Italian Communist Party), Giovanni Moscarella (3V Movement - Vaccini Vogliamo Verità) and Rossella Solombrino (Territorial Equity).
- ADMINISTRATIVE: CANDIDATES IN SARDINIA
(Unioneonline / lf)
