The result leaves no room for misunderstandings, the center-right wins the regionals hands down , effectively reinforcing, as Giorgia Meloni immediately comments, "the action of the government".

In Lombardy Attilio Fontana was reconfirmed with 54.67% . Pierfrancesco Majorino of the centre-left stops at 33.9%, only 9.87% for the Third Pole candidate Letizia Moratti.

In Lazio Francesco Rocca wins the day with 53.88% , followed by Alessio D'Amato (Pd and Third Pole) at 33.5%, stopped at 10.7 by the M5s candidate Donatella Bianchi.

But the most sensational fact that emerges from these consultations is abstentionism because just 40% of voters vote. 41.67% of eligible voters go to Lombardy, but the absolute record is in Lazio: only 37% turn up at the polls . Maximum peak in Rome with 33.11%, a disheartening figure if we consider that 63.11% went to the polls in the previous regional elections in 2018 in the capital.

In the centre-right, in both regions, the individual majority parties collect a good result overall. The League holds in Lombardy even if it is no longer the first party in the Region. The political force led by Matteo Salvini, who in any case continues to represent the figure of President Fontana, reconfirmed at Pirellone, brings home a 17% which, although in sharp decline compared to the 29.6% of 5 years ago, is still in growth compared to the September policies when it collected 13%. Now the first political force in the region, which has always been supported by the Northern League, is the Brothers of Italy who maintain their positions with 26% , without however breaking through the line conquered in September. While FI, despite having halved the votes, going from 14% in 2018 to 8% now, all in all it holds if we consider that it had won 6.8% in the last few policies.

Moratti, formerly Fontana's deputy in the region, presenting herself as a candidate for the Third Pole, not only fails in the end to erode any votes from the centre-right, but overall registers a flop, stopping at 10%. A result that leads the leader of Azione Carlo Calenda to say that «the center and the left have never been in a match, not even united» and that «Moratti was courageous and spent a great deal, but outside the pool of votes of the Third Polo we were unable to attract consensus » .

The electoral result in Lazio is similar, where the majority parties manage to snatch the leadership of the region from the Democratic Party, which had seen Nicola Zingaretti confirmed for two terms. Fratelli d'Italia collects over 34% confirming itself as the first party and surpassing the result of the policies when it had taken 31.44%. All in all, the Democratic Party resists obtaining that 21% which is in line with the 21.25% of 2018 and improves compared to the 18.32% of the latest policies . However, the exploit to Donatella Bianchi, the Rai journalist chosen by Giuseppe Conte to compete with Alessio D'Amato, fails. She stops at 12%. But the pentastellati collapse from 27% of 5 years ago to just over 9% .

COUNT-LETTA CLASH

The secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta points the finger at the M5S and the Third Pole saying that " the takeover bid against the Pd has hurt those who have attempted it ", while claiming the fact that it is now "the second largest party in the country" . Giuseppe Conte acknowledges the "absolutely unsatisfactory" result, but defends himself against the attacks that arrive from the Nazarene in the afternoon. "Someone is already ringing the death knell for the M5s - he declares - but I would not exaggerate the scope that remains limited on a territorial level to these elections". Then the jab at the outgoing secretary of the Democratic Party. « Listening to the revived Letta who from his enthusiastic declarations seems to be uncorking bottles of champagne on the performance of the Democratic Party is not acceptable. Frankly, I would have little to celebrate ».

Conte refers precisely to Lazio, " where there is a candidate indicated by Letta and Calenda, who hand over the Region to the center-right ".

(Unioneonline/L)

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