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Supplementary elections in Naples, Sandro Ruotolo elected senator. The Pd-Dema axis wins

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It will be the journalist Sandro Ruotolo, known face of TV for years alongside Michele Santoro, to sit on the Senate benches in place of the late Franco Ortolani (M5s). This is the verdict of the suppletives in the uninominal college 7 of Campania, over 300 thousand voters and a large area of ​​the city of Naples to vote, from Vomero to Scampia. Ruotolo ran as an independent and without party symbols on the ballot, for what many commentators have judged as a first experiment of the enlarged center-left.

Ruotolo, in fact, had the support of a large center-left coalition also supported by Dema, the movement headed by the mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, and without the support of the Cinquestelle who did not accept the courtship of the center-left preferring to run from only in the college that only two years ago had won with 53% of the votes and where they now stop just above 22%.

The new senator – who in the election campaign said he wanted to join the mixed group once elected – won the competition with over 16 thousand preferences by beating the candidate of the center-right Salvatore Guangi, still at 24%, and that of the Five stars , Luigi Napolitano (22.5%) at the end of a consultation characterized by strong abstention. In fact, only 9.52% of those entitled to vote went to the polls: one in ten Neapolitans. A figure that cannot be compared with the 61% who voted for the 2018 policies in that same college, but still an indication of low participation. To understand now how this vote will affect the next Campania Regionals. And if between Pd and M5s, for now divided on the choice of candidate for president, there may be a rapprochement on a local basis.

“This result is extraordinary – the first words of Ruotolo as senator – the left in this college started from 20%. The other fact is that together we won. This left will have to engage and take care of the people, communities, suburbs that have been totally abandoned. We must ask the government for a plan for the suburbs for the South. Nothing will be like before. “

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