Abruzzo confirms Marco Marsilio , who remains at the helm of the Region. The centre-right candidate prevails over Luciano D'Amico, wide field : in the 1,634 seats (counting completed in the early hours of the morning) it ended 53.5% (327,660 votes) against 46.5% (248,748) . Split voting was not permitted. The satisfaction, in a post on After the defeat in Sardinia, the vote for the Abruzzo regional elections was eagerly awaited by the national secretariats of the parties. " Never in the last 30 years has a president been reconfirmed: a page of history has been written and another wall has been knocked down ", this is how Marsilio already commented on the results of the regional elections last night.
Voting took place only yesterday, polling stations open from 7am to 11pm, turnout was 52.2%, a slight decrease compared to 2019. The counting, unlike what happened on the island for the call to the polls on the 25th February, started immediately. Marsilio's advantage (supported by Fratelli d'Italia, Lega, Forza Italia and Noi Moderati, to which are added the Union of the Center and the "Marsilio Presidente" civic list) immediately appeared evident compared to Luciano D'Amico , of the camp “very broad” (Pd, 5 Star Movement, Green-Left Alliance and Action, as well as from the civic lists “Abruzzo Insieme-D'Amico Presidente”, “Riformisti e Civici” and “Abruzzo Vivo”).
The party that obtained the most votes is Fratelli d'Italia (24.10%), ahead of Pd (20.29%). In the centre-right, great result for Forza Italia (13.44%), while the League stopped at 7.56%. Poorly, in the other camp, the 5 Star Movement , at 7.01%.
« The wide field is not the future of Abruzzo» , said the new president Marsilio, «because it was his sad past. The wide field will not be the future of Italy." The disappointed Pd and M5S underline the abstention in the vote. «This is very serious for democracy. A bad figure." Unlike what happened in Sardinia, with 4 candidates in the running (Truzzu, Todde, Soru, Chessa), what characterized the regional elections on Sunday 10 March was bipolarism, with an electoral system that provided for a single vote, nothing separate, without those possibilities that favored - on the island - the wide field with the rise of Alessandra Todde .
(Unioneonline/vf)
