Polls open from 7 this morning in the Emilia-Romagna and Umbria regions where the regional councils are renewed and the new president is elected. The polls will close at 11pm and will reopen tomorrow Monday 18 November from 7am to 3pm. After the closing of voting operations the counting will begin. The result is expected in the late afternoon.
For this electoral round there are 4,529 sections for Emilia Romagna in a total of 330 Municipalities and a thousand sections for Umbria divided into 92 Municipalities. In total, almost 4.3 million voters were called to vote in the two Regions.
In Emilia Romagna
Around 3.6 million citizens of Emilia-Romagna voted. In the order of how they appear on the ballot paper (green) and on the posters, the candidates for the office of president of the regional council are: Michele de Pascaleborn in Cesena on 20 January 1985; Elena Ugoliniborn in Rimini on 9 June 1959; Luca Teodoriborn in Baden (Switzerland) on 10 November 1968; Federico Serraborn in Trento on 18 May 1991. 50 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Of these, two seats are reserved for the president-elect and the runner-up presidential candidate.
In Umbria
There are nine candidates for the presidency of the Region in Umbria, where, however, based on the forecasts of the day before, there is a head-to-head between the centre-right and the broad camp of the centre-left, who respectively support the candidates for the presidency Donatella Teseioutgoing governor, of the League and the civic Stefania Proietticurrent mayor of Assisi and president of the Province of Perugia. The others in the running are Giuseppe Paolone with People’s Strength; Marco RizzoReformist Alternative and Sovereign and Popular Democracy; Martina LeonardiTogether for resistant Umbria; Elia Francesco FioriniAlternative for Umbria; Giuseppe TrittoTritto president-Humans together free; Moreno PasquinelliFront of dissent; Fabrizio PignalberiFifth pole for Italy and More sovereign Italy.
Donatella Tesei, lawyer, is supported by the UDC, Popular Alternative, League, Noi moderate-civics for Umbria, Tesei president, Forza Italia and Fratelli d’Italia lists; Stefania Proietti, engineer and researcher, from Umbria tomorrow, Umbrian Civics, Umbria for public health, Democratic Party, Future Umbria, 5 Star Movement and Left Green Alliance. There are therefore 23 admitted lists and almost 460 aspiring councillors. The Region goes to elections after the natural end of the legislature and a few months after the municipal elections which in Perugia saw the mayor Vittoria Ferdinandi prevail, supported by the broad camp of the centre-left, with a historic victory after ten years of centre-right administrations (with mayor Andrea Romizi).
In practice, the same line-up is now on the field for Stefania Proietti. With the centre-left, which has also overcome disagreements and discontent between the various parties (with the exponents of IV and Action on the lists).
The mayor of Terni, Stefano Bandecchi, was also initially among the candidates running for the presidency in Umbria. However, after the national agreement with the centre-right, the leader of Popular Alternative withdrew his candidacy for president and supported Donatella Tesei. There are those who argue that the mayor of Terni could hold the balance. And the others?
The best-known name, that of the long-time politician, is Marco Rizzo. A former deputy and MEP, he founded the Communist Party, of which he held the role of secretary until 2023. He ran – he said – to “undermine the right and the left”.
In Umbria, Moreno Pasquinelli is also a well-known name, an anti-system militant who in the 1990s was among the founders of the Anti-Imperialist Camp, an “international movement aligned in favor of oppressed peoples”.
Elia Francesco Fiorini is a municipal councilor of Magione, “freelance professional and scholar”, as his Facebook profile indicates.
Martina Leonardi is a “professional educator, transfeminist”, we always read on her social sites.
Giuseppe Pino Paolone, business consultant-entrepreneur, is vice president of Forza del Popolo. Fabrizio Pignalberi is a freelancer.
Giuseppe Tritto a surgeon.
Umbria’s electoral law does not allow you to cast a split vote, that is, to choose a presidential candidate and then a list different from those that support him. And from now on, as the outgoing president Tesei underlined, “the Umbrians are in their own hands”.