“Together we won” says the new senator Sandro Ruotolo elected with 48.45 percent of the vote. The count closed shortly before 1 am on February 24th.
“Ruotolo Senatore! Although very low turnout is our great victory, together with those who have decided to focus on a decent man who unites and does not divide. Defeated the right. Ruotolo will bring the autonomous and proud Naples of these years to the Senate. An anti-fascist mustache! ” hot comments the mayor Luigi de Magistris who supported with his movement Dema, together with Pd and Leu the journalist.
“This supplementary election, which is marginal in large numbers, is actually a laboratory with respect to the need to change, to expand the forces of the center-left, to take sides against the sovereign right with civil society”, he comments to Adnkronos Ruotolo, who says: “And it was a beautiful but very tiring election campaign “.
In less than a month, from 22 January to 21 February, the journalist traveled over 200 km on foot, fragmented by meetings such as that with “Elly Schlein, vice president of Emilia Romagna, with the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza or the former secretary of the CGIL Guglielmo Epifani “.
“For the analyzes we wait – comments Ruotolo from Domus Ars where he followed the count -. Now what to say? It was a supplementary, there was the panic of the coronavirus, there was the Carnival. This result is extraordinary, the left in this college started from 20%. The other fact is that together we won, and therefore it will be difficult for the future not to take this into account. A huge political result. Attention we have not solved all the problems. This left – he underlines – will have to commit and take care of the people, the communities, the suburbs that have been totally abandoned. The Vomero, the middle class, the suburbs have been a gamble. We must ask the government for a plan for the suburbs for the South. Nothing will be more like before”.
At 7 p.m. the turnout in the 444 sections opened in Naples for the supplementary elections for a seat in the Senate was 7.29 per cent, in the end it stopped below 10 per cent: record abstention. The percentage of the voters of the city of Naples at 11.00 pm was 9.52%. The voters were 357,299. Only 34,000 voters. At the Political elections of 2018, Senate 7 voted 60.92%.
Behind Ruotolo, Luigi Napolitano (M5s), with 23%, and Salvatore Guanci (center-right) with 21%.
The vote was taken to replace Franco Ortolani, the M5s geologist who passed away on 22 November and elected on 4 March 2018 with 53% of the votes and over 100 thousand votes. A challenge between Ruotolo, supported by the Democratic Party and Dema, the movement of the mayor de Magistris, Luigi Napolitano for the M5s, Salvatore Guangi supported by the League, Fi and FdI, Giuseppe Aragno di Potere al Popolo and Riccardo Guarino for the Neapolitan Renaissance.
The center-left thus strengthens its numbers in the Senate, a good sign for the Conte government.
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