Ballots, the Democratic Party resists Bolzano, Spagnolli mayor for the third time – BBC

municipal trentino

Milan , May 25, 2015 – 11:55

     
     
 

The Mayor of Bolzano Pd Luigi Spagnolli is the center for the third time and won the municipal to the ballot, defeating the candidate of the center Alexander Urzì. A Laives, 17000 inhabitants, the outgoing mayor of the Democratic Party, and the party secretary, Liliana of the Faith, however, must yield the chair to the candidate of the center C hristian Bianchi . Upset in the town of Merano, where for the first time won the candidate of the Greens, Paul Rosch , beating Gerhard Gruber, candidate of the SVP, the majority party in South Tyrol. In Rovereto, in Trentino, in a challenge to the entire inner center, the candidate of the Civic Francesco Valduga beat the incumbent mayor Andrea Miorandi.Sono these results of the ballot for the municipal elections of Sunday, May 24 in Alto Adige.
In the election, there was also a collapse voter turnout. At the close of polling, the number of voters who went to the polls had fallen from 57.8% to 40.7% of the first round. Even more significant is the comparison with 2010, when the turnout was 65.6%, which means that voters in four of five years ago are no longer went to the polls.

Risk ungovernability

Now that you have had in Bolzano so the outcome of the two rounds of voting with confirmation of Spagnolli, also strong support of the SVP, appears, however, the problem of governance, with a city council split in 18 different political formations and Spagnolli who will try to gather around him a majority to ten. “I think I can,” he said to blow hot Spagnolli, stressing that “Bolzano needs a government.” “You do not win elections – he added – to win someone, but to govern for five years a community.” Spagnolli, also said he was “very surprised” by the results of Laives and Merano. That gather a majority in Bolzano is difficult is instead convinced the defeated Urzì, which, while finishing second on the ballot, has collected a good haul of votes, more than tripling the result achieved in the first round. Urzì – who raced with the colors of Forza Italy at the head of a staff party, however, coming from the ranks of the National Alliance – believes that Spagnolli not be able to collect the required majority and already predicts early elections.

Green Merano

As for the Municipality of Laives, near Bolzano, where it collects a large part of the electorate of the Italian language, the competition took place on the wire wool and saw the end the victory of Christian Bianchi who introduced himself at the head of a center-united more than the rest of the country and with the mayor Pd Of Faith who had to give up the support of the SVP who was partner in the previous junta. The big surprise of the day of elections in Trentino Alto Adige was the city of Merano, where the candidate of the Greens defeated the SVP: it is a historical result defined. In the spa town, the second in South Tyrol by population, was never a member of the Greens in fact come down to occupy the post of mayor. For Suedtiroler Volkspartei, he considered the party’s collection of the German community in South Tyrol, have lost the leadership of the second largest city in South Tyrol is a heavy defeat. The party of the edelweiss in two weeks has lost several municipalities. A signal that confirms the crisis of the “new SVP” caused by strong internal tensions.

May 25, 2015 | 11: 55

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