Voting operations for the election of the President of the Region and for the renewal of the XVII Regional Council are underway in the 377 municipalities of Sardinia .

Polling stations open from 6.30am today, you can vote until 10pm .

The voters - divided into 1884 sections in the 8 constituencies (Cagliari, Medio Campidano, Carbonia - Iglesias, Oristano, Nuoro, Ogliastra, Sassari and Olbia-Tempio) - are 1,447,761, of which 709,840 men and 737,921 women.

Among the 1416 candidates, the 60 councilors who will make up the seventeenth legislature of the Regional Council of Sardinia will be chosen .

The day of truth, however, will be tomorrow, when the counting of ballots is expected starting from 7am. The data on voter turnout is expected later today.

FOUR-WAY RACE – Four aspiring governors, two women and two men: in alphabetical order, Lucia Chessa for Sardigna R-esiste, Renato Soru for the Sardinian Coalition, Alessandra Todde for the broad-based Pd-M5S camp and Paolo Truzzu for the centre-right . There are 1416 candidates for a place in the Sardinian Assembly (708 women and 708 men) competing for 60 seats: 58 councilors are elected in the 8 electoral districts (Cagliari, Carbonia-Iglesias, Medio Campidano, Nuoro, Ogliastra, Olbia-Tempio, Oristano and Sassari), plus the presidential candidate who wins the elections and the challenger aspiring governor who came second.

THE LISTSThe councilor candidates present themselves with 25 lists : ten for Alessandra Todde (M5S-A Innantis, Pd, Alleanza Verdi Sinistra, Uniti con Alessandra Todde, Progressisti-La base, Demos, Sinistra Futura, Psi – Sardi in Europa, Orizzonte Municipality and Fortza Paris); nine for Paolo Truzzu with the centre-right (FdI, Lega, Forza Italia, Psd'Az, Riformatori, Udc, Alleanza Sardegna-Pli, Sardegna in the center 20Venti, Rotondi's DC). There are five lists for Renato Soru with the Sardinian Coalition (Project Sardinia, +Europa-Azione con Soru, Rifondazione Comunista, Liberu and Vota Sardigna). A list for Lucia Chessa, with Sardigna R-esiste.

Further details and insights in the articles by Roberto Murgia and Lorenzo Piras in the newspaper on newsstands and in the digital edition

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