Voting operations in the Peninsula are proceeding slowly. In fact, at 11pm, despite the almost systematic violation of electoral silence, the average turnout in the 1,153 municipalities at the polls stopped at 41.6%. In sharp decline compared to the 61.5% recorded in 2016 (when, however, we voted in a single day) even if up compared to the referendum on the cut of parliamentarians a year ago and above all waiting for those who decided to vote this one. today, as the polling stations will remain open until 3 pm.
Turnout, the big cities
A widespread trend throughout the Peninsula, but particularly true in the five big cities to vote. At 11 pm between Rome, Naples, Milan, Bologna and Turin, all the capitals recorded numbers below the national average, even if up compared to the 2020 referendum. In some areas of the North and Lombardy there are high, even higher, turnouts to 50%.
In the capital, however, despite 22 candidates for mayors, it stopped at 36.8% (five points below the national average of the municipalities). But the average city must be taken with the springs because the Municipality II (which goes from Parioli to the Salario-Trieste) registers a strong turnout while in the outskirts of the VI (Tor Bella Monaca) the seats remained half-empty. Good turnout also in the center, 1st town hall (30.4% at 7pm against the city average of 29% at that time), 3rd town hall – Montesacro – 31.2% and 8th town hall – Garbatella – 31st, 4%. On the other hand, municipalities VI and X, the most favorable to the Rays in 2016, are decreasing.
On the other hand, the numbers recorded in Latina improved, which at 11pm was 46.1.
Among the big cities in the vote, however, Naples did much worse than Rome. For the election of De Magistris’s successor, in fact, at 11 pm yesterday the citizens who rushed to the polls were 33.7%. In Bologna, where the joint candidate Pd-M5s Lepore (like Manfredi in Naples) is also hoping for victory in the first round, the turnout was 35.2%. Turin was placed at 36.5%. The best data arrived from Milan: at 11 pm 37.8% of those entitled to vote, compared to
Returning to the capital, but on the by-elections of the Chamber of Deputies, at 11 pm in the Rome-Primavalle college, the turnout was 33.5% (same seat also for the administrative). In the Tuscan Abruzzo-Siena college, on the other hand, where the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta is also a candidate, the voters were 25.6%.
Finally, as regards the vote for the renewal of the Calabrian regional summits, the voters were 30.9%.
Electoral silence
Yesterday, however, there was no invitation to electoral silence that he held. Indeed, in the age of social networks – never regulated in this sense – its violation was almost systematic. Controversy is therefore inevitable.
However, what is most talked about, net of the numerous interventions on the fire of the Ponte dell’Industria in Rome, is a more traditional mini-meeting improvised by Silvio Berlusconi who, at the exit of the seat in via Ruffini in Milan, after having voted for the Milanese municipalities, he entertained in his own way with the journalists who came. First he pulled the reins on the federation in the pipeline with the Lega (“We have not put it aside” but it must be overcome “to extend it to Fdi as well,” he said), then he theorized a new PDL (“Yes, why not”, ended only “for the betrayal of one of the components”) and finally dismantled the divisions within the center-right without sparing criticism on the ways in which the candidates were chosen: “They come out of the choices of this or that party leader, instead of from democratic choices, so maybe next time we will have to change the system ». Giorgia Meloni, on the other hand, on the first day of the vote, pressed by the need to respond to the investigation into the “black lobby” inside FdI, chose a long message to unified networks on all her social channels in which she essentially claimed to have nothing ” to be ashamed of “because” what happened was studied at the table by an entire circus “.
But the episodes have chased each other in all cities to vote. So if in Turin the mayor candidate of the M5s Valentina Sganga ended up accused of friendly fire (the Piedmontese grillini activists denounce the reception late at night of messages on Facebook containing the voting intentions of the aspiring first citizen), in Naples Domenico Masciari, candidate in the list in support of Bassolino he even thought it best to publish a photo of his vote on the ballot paper on Instagram.
But such cases have also been reported in Cosenza (where two candidates have made it known that they will denounce each other as soon as possible for some posts on Facebook) and in Salerno, where the M5s denounces alleged pressure on the employees of a cooperative by the owner, near to the list of the outgoing mayor Naples.
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