There are 304 “great voters”, including mayors and municipal councilors, who on March 29 will have to choose the new president of the Province of Crotone and the 10 members of the Provincial Council. This was certified by the general secretary of the intermediate body, Nicola Middonno, in his capacity as head of the provincial electoral office, on the basis of the certificates received from 26 of the 27 Municipalities to establish the audience of those entitled to vote. Which includes first citizens and municipal councilors as required by the Delrio law of 2014 which transformed the Provinces into second level local authorities. Furthermore, only mayors can aspire to lead the intermediate body (for the next 4 years). While the first citizens and municipal councilors are eligible for the office of provincial councilor (whose mandate will last 2 years).
But the preferences will not all weigh equally since the vote is weighted, i.e. linked to the number of residents of the municipalities to which the “big voters” belong. In demographic band A (up to 3 thousand inhabitants) there are 16 municipalities which express 153 voters for a weighting index of 103: Belvedere di Spinello, Caccuri, Carfizzi, Casabona, Castelsilano, Cerenzia, Cirò, Crucoli, Pallagorio, San Mauro Marchesato, San Nicola dell’Alto, Santa Severina, Savelli, Scandale, Umbriatico and Verzino; in band B (from 3,001 to 5 thousand inhabitants) 2 municipalities for 25 voters with a weighting index of 183: Roccabernarda and Melissa; in band C (5,001 to 10 thousand inhabitants) 6 municipalities for 60 voters with a weighting index of 372: Cotronei, Cutro, Mesoraca, Petilia Policastro, Rocca di Neto and Strongoli; in band D (from 10,001 to 30 thousand inhabitants) 2 municipalities for 33 voters with a weighting index of 674: Cirò Marina and Isola Capo Rizzuto; and in band E (from 30,001 to 100 thousand inhabitants) there is only Crotone with 33 voters and with the highest weighting index of 1,060. In this round, Casabona, Cutro and Savelli are excluded from the electoral body as they are commissioners.
Nominations for president and for the Provincial Council will be presented between 8 and 9 March. But negotiations to identify the successor to the regent of the Province, Fabio Manica, who in January took over from Sergio Ferrari, elected to the Regional Council, are still on the high seas.