There were 1416 candidates, equally divided between men and women: 708 and 708. And if sixty of them will fill the benches of the new Regional Council of Sardinia, there are 1356 non-elected ones, with the assembly getting closer hour after hour to its composition definitive.
These are not necessarily flops: among the great excluded, there are also those who have achieved excellent results at the polls. Like Nanni Lancioni of the Psd'Az, the most voted among the non-elected, with 4711 preferences: not enough to confirm himself in the chamber. In his case, the defeat of the coalition was fatal, which meant that only one party candidate was "picked" from the Cagliari constituency: the one who mocked him was the outgoing Tourism Councilor Gianni Chessa, who obtained 5683 votes. Similar speech for the mayor of Maracalagonis Francesca Fadda , also a candidate in Cagliari with the Psd'Az (supported by Chessa), and excluded with 4171 votes.
Something similar also in Sulcis, with the defeat of the centre-right which brings only one elected member of the Brothers of Italy and sees Gigi Rubiu overtake Ignazio Locci , mayor of Sant'Antioco, cut off from the Regional Council with 3294 preferences. He gathers slightly less another great exclusion, the president of the City Council of Cagliari Edoardo Tocco , candidate with Forza Italia, for whom 3218 ballots with his name were not enough. Same party as Marco Tedde , who dragged Paolo Truzzu to victory in Alghero with 3113 votes: not enough, because the system of remainders and quotients did not deliver seats to FI in the Sassari constituency.
After many years in the Council, the mayor of Paulilatino Domenico Gallus (Psd'Az), who collected 2421 preferences, and the president of the outgoing assembly Michele Pais , in the Lega quota, remain outside, despite the 2742 ballots with his name.
Excellent exclusions not only among the losers: the Pd's exploits also made Fabrizio Marcello 's 3512 in Cagliari insufficient, as he was narrowly overtaken by his party mate Camilla Soru. He is the most voted among the non-elected winners. Betti Di Bernardo also received over three thousand preferences, again for the Democratic Party, in the Carbonia-Iglesias constituency, where however Alessandro Pilurzu passed with his 4090 votes. Among the Dems, Ivana Russu is also out of the Regional Council (3074 of them chose her), but she was a candidate in a constituency, the Olbia one, which saw the triumph of Giuseppe Meloni with 6751 preferences.
A separate chapter for the outgoing councillors, with eight of them candidates. Gianni Chessa has already been mentioned: besides him, Giuseppe Fasolino and Aldo Salaris, promoted with the Reformers in Gallura and Sassari, should find a new seat in the Regional Council. Excluding the councilor for Labor Ada Lai , who collected 750 votes with Forza Italia, the councilor for Agriculture Valeria Satta with 553, the councilor for Transport Antonio Moro – 1224 preferences with the Psd'Az – and the councilor for Public Education Andrea Biancareddu , who received 2366 with the League. Pierluigi Saiu is still in the balance, still at Lega quota, with 2977: he could leave room for coalition leader Paolo Truzzu.
(Unioneonline/L.Ne.)
