The turnout at 11 pm for the run-offs of the municipal elections is equal to 39.03%. The data, published on the Viminale website, does not include that of the municipalities in the special statute regions of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige and Valle d’Aosta. In the first round at the same time the turnout was 49.48%. The polling stations will reopen at 7 am and close at 3 pm, when the ballot begins.
There are 67 municipalities with more than 15,000 inhabitants who, not having elected the mayor in the first round, are again called to the polls. There are nine capital municipalities that go to the ballot: Matera, Chieti. Crotone, Reggio Calabria, Andria, Lecco, Bolzano, Arezzo and Aosta.
The M5s will try to win in Matera and Andria, the only cities in which it arrived at the ballot: in the city of stones by making tests of alliance with the Pd, which will not be possible in Andria where the two sides are opposed. In Matera, the M5s candidate Domenico Bennardi arrived in the first round at 27.4% while the challenger Rocco Luigi Sassone, supported by the center-right, finished at 30.4. A small gap which the Movement could take advantage of by taking the votes of the Democratic Party and the rest of the center-left, even if the dems have never made official support. Also in Andria the 5S are on the ballot but here the challenge is with the allies in the government, clearly ahead in the first round: Giovanna Bruno of the center-left (38.1%) and the pentastellato Michele Coratella at 20.7.
Chieti, stronghold of the right. he sees the center-right candidate Fabrizio Di Stefano, pharmacist, and Diego Ferrara, family doctor, center-left candidate challenge each other. In Lombardy, in Lecco, after ten years of center-left junta, Peppino Ciresa (supported by Lega, Fdi and FI) stopped just below 49%: the challenge is with Mauro Gattinoni, candidate of the Democratic Party and Civic Lists.
Reggio Calabria represents a unicum compared to the other capitals because it is the first time that it will go to the ballot: voters will have to choose between the outgoing mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà (center-left) at 37.1% and the center-right candidate Antonino Minicuci at 33.6% . Also in Calabria, in Crotone the candidates are Antonio Manica of the center-right and, surprisingly, the civic Vincenzo Voce, who had the support of many activists dealing with environmental and cultural issues.
In Arezzo the choice will be between the outgoing mayor Alessandro Ghinelli of the center-right (supported by OraGhinelli 20 25, Lega, Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia-Arezzo nel Cuore and Civitas Etruria) who placed 47% in the first round and Luciano Ralli , doctor, supported by the center left (Pd, Arezzo 2020, Ralli Mayor, CuriAmo Arezzo and Arezzo Ci Sta!) which stopped at 35%.
Finally, in Aosta the voters will be able to vote Giovanni Nuti of the center-left, teacher of pedagogy and musician who obtained 38.84% of the votes and the civic Giovanni Girardini (24.31%, candidate of the Renaissance, the movement headed by Vittorio Sgarbi) and which will also be supported by the center-right, excluded from the ballot.
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