The first round of the municipal 2025 in the provincial capitals rewards the center -left who tears Genova from the center -right, confirming Ravenna and Trento. A week ago the center -right had torn the mayor of Bolzano from the center -left at the ballot. Overall, the center -left has so far obtained 3 mayors against 2 of the center -right. The previous elections ended up 4-2 for the center-left.
On 8 and 9 June the center -left and center -right will compete in the ballot in the municipalities of Matera (the outgoing mayor Pentastellato arrived third in the first round) and Taranto. It will also be voted in the municipality of Nuoro for the first round.
Silvia Salis New Mayor of Genoa
The candidate of the progressive field Silvia Salis is the new mayor of Genoa. The official confirmation comes from the data released by the Ministry of the Interior at the end of the ballot in the 653 sections of the administrative elections that ended late at night: The center-left-m5s coalition wins in the first round With 124,720 votes equal to 51.48% of the total on the center -right coalition led by the candidate for mayor Pietro Piciocchi with 107,091 votes equal to 44.20%. To be elected in the first round it was necessary to obtain at least the absolute majority (50%+1) of the valid votes. There were 249,115 voters in the municipal elections in Genoa, 242,260 votes valid, 2,207 white cards, 4,569 the null cards, 12 null votes and 67 the contested votes. The third most voted candidate was Mattia Crucioli supported by the ‘United for the Constitution’ list to 1.45% with 3,502 votes, followed by Antonella Marras (alternative left) to 1.29% with 3,131 votes, Francesco Toscano (sovereign and popular democracy) at 0.79% with 1,917 votes, Raffaella Gualco (united Genoa) at 0.52% with 1,248 votes Ronzitti (Communist Party of workers) at 0.27% with 651 votes.
Salis, “In Genoa a new wind, united we have no rivals. I hope to talk to Meloni”
«I am here to give a message to Genoa, not to the government or Meloni. Indeed, I hope to meet her early to understand how we can work together for the good of the city ». Thus, in Repubblica, the Neosindaca of Genoa Silvia Salis. That the air was changing “it was already understood to the regional of last year, when in Genoa the center -left had ended up on eight points”. «This is a city that needed a new wind, to shake off everything that led us to the dishonor of the chronicles. And then he weighed the sense of union that gave this coalition from the first day. The narration of the right was coarse and people noticed. We say yes to the infrastructures that are needed and to the great projects already in progress. Then we say that we must also think immediately of social infrastructures. The progressive field, when focusing on the things that unite it, which are many more than those who divide it, can potentially win everywhere. When we unite and compare our and their ruling classes, there is no history ». Salis also gave an interview with the press: with the opponent Pietro Piciocchi “was a very short and very formal call, in which we said that we will then see each other for the passage of deliveries. I feel happy, satisfied and proud of the race that we did because both as a style and as responsibility for citizenship we have really been to the level I expected. We did it for Genoa and we did it because politics must learn to speak a better language and to be an example. And I mean a positive example, not a bitter, negative example, like that of the councilor who posted a photo of mine in swimwear with my son in the arms without even obscuring his face ». Compared to the referendum «I find terrible that the institutions of this country invite not to go to vote. I believe that a certain type of vote or even the white card can be suggested, but not to go to vote. However, I will vote five yes ».
Schlein, “To them the polls, to us the ballot boxes. United you win, Meloni begin to worry”
«United you win. I was in Giorgia Meloni I would start to worry, it is the symptom that something in his relationship with the country broke. ” Thus, in Repubblica, the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein. «The thing is now clear – he adds – the center -right rejoices for the surveys, but we win the elections. Being strictly unitary is not a thesis or a political debate but an objective fact: only in this way can you beat the right. We are so convinced that we will continue in this direction, trying to put the many things that unite us in the center, summarizing the different points of view, which are also there. Where we governing together it is already working ». Schlein is surprising more is “the growth of the Democratic Party. We are the first party in many cities. In Genoa we are around 30%, eight points more than the last municipal ones, while Fdi is at 12. A trend that had already established itself in the regional and Europeans ». The M5S is very low: «To win everyone’s contribution was fundamental. It is not just a mathematical question ». «I believe that winning on the territories with credible candidates and shared programs is the demonstration that we can also do it to the policies – he continues – following exactly the same method. The themes that we bring to the local elections are not different from the national ones. We, unlike the right that is together for power, we all breed for things to do together for the Italians, it is a great difference. We are confident because today’s day is a step forward towards the construction of the alternative. And we will continue to insist to win the ballots and referendums. If anything, they are the ones who have to be worried. It seems clear to me that something broke in the relationship with the electorate. In Genoa the Democratic Party is above Fdi of 18 points. In Ravenna we are at 42, them at 16. So sure: unless it is deaf, the alarm is played beautiful ». In view of the regional “so significant victories are the best premise for working for equally strong coalitions for the return that awaits us in a few months. The work is already well started. I am optimistic, “he concludes.
Renzi: “What a Scoppola for Meloni”
“When the center -left is United, it wins and wins especially if it puts in the field credible candidates, the revelation” of this round is Silvia Salis, “a young and competent woman. When the center -left does not put the vetoes as had happened to the regional wins. If you look at all the data Meloni took a scoppola not to laugh ». This was stated by the leader of Italy Viva Matteo Renzi, in ‘Tagada “». “When I was in the government there were the bombastic comments of all brothers of Italy at every election of the municipality of Vattelapesca lost, they claimed that my time was finished. I will not make this error. But I say: it was a little broken the spell. I don’t want to remove anything from the victories of the mayors. who wins, “he adds.