Elections, Italy goes back to the polls for the administrative elections: spotlight on Genoa, Ravenna, Matera and Taranto

Almost two million Italians at the polls, 117 municipalities voting. We return to the polls in Italy today, Sunday 25 May, and tomorrow, Monday 26 May. The counting will begin tomorrow as soon as the polls close. We are voting in the administrative elections for the renewal of the municipal councils, a test of the solidity of the center-right majority in government and of the opportunities of the opposition while waiting for the regional elections next autumn in Campania, Marche, Puglia, Veneto and Tuscany that will certainly mobilize more people and balances.

Polls will be open today from 7:00 to 23:00 and tomorrow from 7:00 to 15:00. Any run-off elections – in municipalities with more than 15,000 inhabitants where 50% plus one vote is not reached – will be held on Sunday 8 and Monday 9 June, when all of Italy will go back to the polls for the abrogative referendums on work and citizenship. Lombardy is the region with the most municipalities voting, 18, followed by Calabria and Campania. Nine municipalities under special administration in Sicily are voting: Palagonia, Castiglione di Sicilia, Montemaggiore Belsito, Prizzi, Favignana, Solarino, Realmonte, Raddusa and Ramacca.

Great attention and pressure on the four provincial capitals voting. Genoa, Ravenna, Taranto, Matera. In Genoa – where the former mayor Marco Bucci was elected President of Liguria – Pietro Piciocchio, center-right, is challenging Silvia Salis, center-left. However, the challenge involves seven candidates in total: Mattia Crucioli, for United for the Constitution, Raffaella Gualco, candidate for United Genoa, Antonella Marras, candidate for the Alternative Left, Cinzia Ronzitti, candidate for the Communist Workers' Party and Francesco Toscano, candidate for Sovereign and Popular Democracy.

In Ravenna, the broad field represented by Alessandro Barattoni is favored. The center-right is divided, with Nicola Grandi of Fratelli d'Italia also supported by Forza Italia and Alvaro Ancisi supported by the League. In Matera, the center-right is represented by Antonio Nicoletti. The left is divided between Roberto Cifarelli, of the Democratic Party but supported by the centrists, Vincenzo Santochirico with “Progetto Comune”, and Domenico Bennardi of the 5 Star Movement. In Taranto – after the early end of the legislature due to the fall of the Melucci administration, center-left – both the center-left and center-right are divided. Pd and Avs with Piero Bitetti, the M5s with Annagrazia Angolano, Fdi, Fi and Noi Moderati with Luca Lazzaro, while the League is looking more carefully at Francesco Tacente.

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