In the Reggio history of consultations for the direct election of the mayor only once has it been necessary to resort to the second round: it happened in 2020 with the run-off between Giuseppe Falcomatà and Nino Minicuci. It’s recent history and everyone will remember well how it ended. In all the other elections the people of Reggio demonstrated that they immediately had very clear ideas and chose who should be their mayor in the first round.
What will happen on Monday 25 May? Will any of the four candidates for mayor manage to reach 51% of the consensus to enter Palazzo San Giorgio amidst the blares of trumpets and rolls of drums? Or will we rather have to wait until June 7th to get the final response? And if we go to a run-off (probably between the centre-right candidate Cannizzaro and the centre-left Battaglia who will have the most lists and an army of candidates at their disposal) who will the two losers side with?
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