Regional, is bleeding turnout – ANSA.it

A voter polls closed regional stops at 53.9%, a real loss of votes, eleven points lower than it was five years ago, when he went to vote 64.1% of those eligible. Only one voter in two went to the polls. Even for the election of mayors and municipal councils, generally felt by voters, they went to vote only 65%; given the previous counterpart above 73%.

A campaign made of feuds and wars between and within political parties, candidates “unpresentable” and the controversy that followed, the good weather and the bridge June 2 must have helped push many voters away from the polls. As several candidates feared. If it is true that even in the day of the vote many candidates have called on voters to go to vote: “Go everyone to vote, do not give up your right to choose,” he posted on fb President of the Marche Region, Gianmario Spacca, re-nominated with Marche 2020-Ap, and Dc Fi. “I voted at 11 I hope that many of you do. You can vote up to 23. Good vote at all,” he wrote on FB also the outgoing governor re-nominated to the chair of the Tuscany Region Enrico Rossi. Invitations to vote also came from Raffaele Lease (“Democracy has an enemy and called party of abstention”) and the outgoing governor and re-nominated in Campania Stefano Caldoro which reiterated that going to vote is the act more strong and challenging of our democracy. The vertical drop is even compared to Europe last year, when he voted in Veneto 63.9%, 60.7% in Liguria, Tuscany 66.7%, 70.5% in Umbria, Marche 65 , 6%, 51% in Campania, Apulia 51.5%.

At the close of polling in Liguria voted for the regional 50.7% of voters, down by more than ten points than previous counterparts, when they were 60.9%; Umbria voted for the regional 55.4% of voters, with a drop of ten points; in Campania, it voted 51.9% against 63% five years ago; the Veneto, which records the highest percentage, stopped at 57.2% (was 66.5%), in Tuscany voted 48.2% of voters, down about eleven points than previous counterparts ( 60.9%). The strong decrease of voters in Puglia, where he voted for the regional 50% of voters, down from the previous homologous when he went to vote 63.2%. The disaffection is strong even in the Marche it is true that it is going to vote for the regional 49.8% of voters, down by almost thirteen points than previous counterparts (62.8%). For the municipality of Venice 59.8% of citizens went to vote, were 68.6% in the last round.