65 Italian municipalities are voting for the ballot, 5 million Italians called again to the polls on Sunday and Monday. But all eyes are on the three regional capitals, two in particular, Rome and Turin (the other is Trieste).
In its own way also a national test, on alliances and to measure the strength of parties.
In the absence of similarities, in Rome and Turin the center-left can measure the weight of the M5S voters willing to support the Pd candidates. For the center-right this is a survey on internal power relations, also in light of the fact that Enrico Michetti, indicated by FdI, runs in Rome and Paolo Damilano in Turin, considered close to the League's minister Giancarlo Giorgetti.
Conquering Rome and Turin "would be a triumph," said Enrico Letta. The dem are confident.
In Rome, a slight advantage for the center-right, with Michetti taking 30.14% in the first round against Gualtieri's 27.03%. The dem candidate hopes for recovery and, even if there are no official appearances, he can count on the explanations of vote from Calenda (third in the first round with 19.81%) and the M5S leader Giuseppe Conte. Virginia Raggi, on the other hand, did not say anything, “burned out” by the fourth and last place (among the big names) in the first round.
Another lit match is in Turin, also here in place of a first outgoing town M5S. It is no coincidence that the national leaders converged there for the closure of the electoral campaign: Salvini and Antonio Tajani for Damilano, Letta for Stefano Lo Russo. Even in the Piedmontese capital there was neither the Pd-M5S apparition nor an explanation of vote from the Appendino. The outcome of the first round reassures the center-left: his candidate scored almost five points more than that of the center-right.
The games seem to be made in favor of the center-right in Trieste, where the outgoing mayor Roberto Di Piazza starts from 46.92% against 31.65% of the center-left challenger Francesco Russo.
The provincial capitals to the vote are Varese, Savona, Latina, Benevento (here there is also Mastella who reached 50% in the first round), Caserta, Isernia and Cosenza.
