Municipal ballots: turnout down in Rome and Bologna, the collapse in Naples. The day Live – The Republic

Rome – Turnout declining in the big cities where voting ballots for local elections. At 12, according to reports from the website of the Interior Ministry, in Rome there was a percentage of 13.49 of voters compared to the 14.46 of the first round. A Naples detection has been hampered by a technical problem solved in the early afternoon. When data has arrived, it is certified the collapse: voted 10,06% compared to 15,16% two weeks ago. Net decline also Bologna which voted 17,78% of voters compared to 20,76 of the first round. In very slight increase, however, the turnout at Turin (14,82% compared to 14,54%) and Milan with 15,86% (15,50% two weeks ago).

Calo firm and generalized the influx also in the provincial capitals: Benevento 18,18% (24,74), Brindisi 14,01% (23,02) Carbonia 18,86% (21,95) Caserta 9,87% (21,07) Crotone 12.88 % (21,85) Grosseto 18,68% (21,77) Isernia 13,27% (19,63) Latina 18, 75% (22,36) Novara 15,65% (17,10) Olbia 17,11% (19,97) Pordenone 18 , 46% (21,34) Ravenna 17,63% (19,40) Savona 17,41% (21,09) Varese 16,13% (17,49).

national data says that at 12 he went to the polls on 14.48% of eligible voters, compared to 16,89 % of the first round.

at the regional level, is the Sardinia that has so far attracted the highest percentage of voters to the polls, the 17.82% (in the first round on 20, 85%). Following Emilia Romagna with 17,56% (19,93% was in the first round) and Liguria with 17.41% (from 21.09%). The lower affuenza in Basilicata with 12.93% (17.6%), then Molise with 13,27% (19,63%) and Calabria with 13.32%, where the first round was the highest turnout had, again at 12, with 22.10%.

A double batch . For driving 126 municipalities – 20 of which capital – but also to the balance between the sides and within the parties. For ballots administrative are called to the polls to 8 million 600 thousand Italians, from 7 to 23 today. The focus is of course on the major cities, the most important challenges at the national level: Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples and Bologna.

Matteo Renzi has focused on declassified the election date at a local dispute, referring to the challenge of governance and leadership to the institutional referendum of October, but the other players are hoping that the outcome of the vote is found to be tripped up one for the prime minister. Perhaps with a convergence of votes right and pentastellati in key antirenziana.

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The Five Stars betting mainly on the challenge in the capital – with Virginia Rays that the first round got 35.25 percent against 24.87 Roberto Giachetti – but also hope in Clare hanger in Turin: the candidate M5s that, to win, should recover ten points behind Piero Fassino.

Even Forza Italy plays an important game if in Milan Stefano Parisi could knock the renziano Beppe Sala, the blues could claim to have aimed at a moderate candidate against Meloni-Salvini strategy. The capital of Lombardy, on the other hand, it is considered the center of the balance of this election by the Democratic Party. Especially here we measure the effectiveness of renziana strategy: keeping to the left to win votes in the center.

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dem – excluded from challenge in Naples, where the incumbent mayor de Magistris is in sharp on the advantage of the center-right challenger Lettieri with 42.8 percent of 5 June – have some apprehension in Bologna, where the Democratic Party Virginio Merola has to deal with the League Borgonzoni. Center-right against the center in Trieste, where former Mayor Roberto Dipiazza (40.8 percent in the first round) aims to recover the town hall after five years of center-left, led by Roberto Cosolini (29.2%).

A inflame the last hours of the day before it was still the clash between Rome pentastellati and Democrats with the story of the advice does not denounced by Virginia Rays and the prosecution, the candidate M5s, of violating the electoral silence . Even for the echo of this election in the rest of the world, that of the ballots will be perhaps – especially on the media plan – a “major challenge.” In which, after the controversy of recent days, Massimo D’Alema at the exit of the polling station has flatly stated: “I have voted according to the instructions of my party, as I always have in life.”

from 19 from 23 Repubblica.it will follow the results of the ballots for the Municipal uninterrupted. In the new video studio Rep TV located in the heart of the newspaper, a continuous stream of analysis, interviews and insights with the director Mario Calabresi and Stefano Folli, Claudio Tito, Lucia Annunziata, Sebastiano Messina, Alessandra Longo, Stefano Cappellini, Roberto Rho, in a marathon conducted by Laura Pertici. Provided links to the electoral committees of candidates for Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples and Bologna. There will not only numbers but also the analysis of the newspaper signatures and reactions of the world of politics.