The center-right coalition won - Matteo Salvini, secretary general of the right-wing League, was the first to comment on the official results of the local elections held on Sunday and Monday morning. After several months of keeping a cool distance, the Italian center-right factions have reunited.
The governing party League and the opposition party Italian Brothers put up a joint candidate in several localities, and the results were not far behind. During the voting, nearly nine million citizens were called to the polls to decide on the future leadership of 987 settlements. The participation rate was 54 percent.
In several provincial seats, in Palermo, Aquila and Genoa, center-right candidates can take over the leadership, but in Parma and Padua, the center-left candidate proved to be stronger.
In Verona, no candidate managed to reach the fifty percent advantage, so they can compete in the second round in two weeks. In Pistoia, Gorizia, Belluno, Alessandria and Catanzaro, joint candidates of the center-right won.
At the same time as the elections, a referendum was held on reforming the judiciary. The initiators of the referendum are the right-wing League and the Radicals, but the European Union has also been urging the renewal of the justice system for years. Turnout in the referendum was surprisingly low.
Only 20.9 percent of the 51 million citizens and five million Italians living abroad exercised their democratic right. The participation rate remained below the fifty percent required for validity.
Subsequent comments interpreted the failure of the referendum as a failure of the center-right, but the reality is that only a few people were able to take a meaningful stand on the overly professional issues.
Source: Hungarian Nation
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