The centre-right won the regional elections in Liguria by a swathe .
The mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci , despite losing in his city, wins at the end of a tight head-to-head against the former minister of the Democratic Party Andrea Orlando. With about a hundred of the 1,785 sections to go, he is at 48.7% against the 47.5% of his main challenger, who was surpassed by about 7 thousand votes. All the other candidates are below 1%. Less than one voter in two went to the polls, the turnout stopped at 45.97%.
Bucci was a candidate for the centre-right coalition, Orlando for the broad centre-left coalition with PD, AVS and M5S, without Italia Viva but with Azione.
The first party in the Region is the PD, which with 28.6% almost doubles FdI (14.9%) . Several preferences were collected by the civic lists of candidates, while on the party front in third place is the League (8.5%) , followed by Forza Italia (8%) and Avs (6.1%). The M5S collapses , which in the Liguria of its founder seems to follow the line of Beppe Grillo who wants to extinguish the Movement and stops at 4.6% . Grillo, on the other hand, did not vote, confirmed the president of the Sant'Ilario polling station where the comedian resides.
Matteo Renzi 's comment was not long in coming: "Today, the ones who lost the most are those who conceive politics as a personal clash, as a combination of antipathies and revenge. Those who impose vetoes have lost. Those who do not care about winning but only want to exclude and hate have lost. Giuseppe Conte has lost , of course, and all those who with him have raised vetoes against Italia Viva. Only my personal preferences in the European elections would have been enough to change the outcome of the challenge, only those. Having imposed a veto on the Italia Viva community has led the center-left to defeat."
(Online Union)
