Lepore won with 59.6% of the preferences over Isabella Conti, it stopped at 40.4%. The turnout was 24 thousand voters.
The other candidates for the Capitol
In the race for the Capitol, it will be the dem parliamentarian and former minister of the economy to run for the center-left. After beating the other six participants, the former holder of Finance in the Conte bis will have to contend in the autumn with Enrico Michetti for the center-right, with the mayor Virginia Raggi for the M5s and with the leader of Action Carlo Calenda.
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Pd satisfaction with the turnout
The turnout figure, which in Rome reached 45 thousand voters, if on the one hand it averted the flop risk by putting itself in line with the 2016 result, on the other hand it has nothing to do with the approximately 100 thousand participants in the 2013 primaries. , when Ignazio Marino won. “We are demonstrating that the people of the center-left are there,” said the secretary of the Democrats Enrico Letta with satisfaction, planning, already in the middle of the afternoon, a “large turnout”, both in the capital and in Bologna. “The first bet is won. The primaries in Rome and Bologna are a popular success and even in the Covid era they have turnout like preCovid”, he wrote in the evening.
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Gualtieri: “Honored for the trust”
After a long reflection within the Pd – which Nicola Zingaretti would have preferred in the first place – Gualtieri came forward in early May. Now it is on him that the party led by Letta is focusing strongly: the goal is to win the ballot and, then, to gain the first seat in Palazzo Senatorio. “As we hoped it was a beautiful day of participation and democracy,” he said after the news of his victory. We obtained “a high participation and we are happy. I am honored by the trust that has been placed in me. We are a great team and from tomorrow we are all united, we are working to relaunch Rome”.
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The controversy over the checks on the gazebos
To challenge him were six candidates: Imma Battaglia, Giovanni Caudo, Paolo Ciani, Stefano Fassina, Cristina Grancio and Tobia Zevi. In the morning, the committee of Giovanni Caudo, mini-mayor of the III municipality and former city planning councilor of the Marino junta, reported in some polling stations “lightness in document checks or even blatant violations”.
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Storm on the Roman Democratic Party for the post on Facebook
On the social front, however, the Roman Pd ended up in the spotlight, posting a card on Facebook with six empty boxes and a single crossed-out name: that of Gualtieri. The gimmick annoyed Imma Battaglia: “The votes are won with information, programs and ideas, and not by obscuring names”. And the leader of Action Carlo Calenda did not miss an opportunity to argue, with the usual irony: “To the voice of open primaries. A true exercise of democracy. Daje”. “You won’t hear a single controversial word from me,” Letta replied coldly.
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Lepore: “Bologna confirms itself as the most progressive city in Europe” Satisfaction also in Bologna where Matteo Lepore won. “With this result, Bologna confirms itself as the most progressive city in Italy with a strong and united center-left that will win the October appointment – are his first words -. We have done a great thing, and from the most popular districts of our city. a clear and clear signal has come. This is the victory of progressive and democratic politics “.
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