24 more hours and then the citizens of Palmi, on Sunday and Monday (polling stations close at 3pm), will be called to vote to decide who will be the new mayor of the city of Palmi. These are the numbers that describe the electoral round: two candidates for mayor, 7 lists and 108 aspiring city councilors. Notably absent, at least officially, are the parties with the two coalitions that wanted to embrace civility.
There are around 16 thousand people with the right to vote, but it is a fact that should not be misleading: on average, the vote in Palmi brings around 11-12 thousand citizens to the polls who will decide who will be the next mayor of the city of Palmi, who will succeed, after the double mandate, Giuseppe Ranuccio.
In 2022, for the first time in the history of the city, Ranuccio was reconfirmed mayor directly in the first round, on that occasion 63.83% of those entitled to vote went to the polls. In 2017, the first round recorded a turnout of 64.73%, a decrease compared to the 2012 elections which recorded, again in the first round, a final figure of 70.56%.
The last appeals came yesterday evening from the stage in Piazza I Maggio where mayoral candidate Francesco Cardone opened the rallies and Giovanni Calabria closed. The two aspiring first citizens came close to each other but what was ultimately missing in this electoral campaign was the direct confrontation between the two candidates for mayor, requested several times by Cardone and his coalition and avoided by Calabria and his entourage. Also in this case everyone has decided to follow their own path and from the secret of the urn it will be clear which strategy was the most successful.
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