Marco Bucci he is the new governor of Liguria with a victory that, based on the sections scrutinized and the latest projections, comes to a close. With a difference of a few thousand votes compared to approximately one million and 400 thousand voters. Andrea Orlando he calls his opponent and congratulates him on the victory. The center-right claims an acquired success, after an ups and downs that has repeatedly shown how Liguria is divided in two: the centre-left breaks through in the central east and then in Genoa and La Spezia while the Savonese and above all the Imperia area, thanks in particular to the commitment of Claudio Scajolastarting from the contribution on the choice of candidate Bucci, show a strong centre-right connotation.
«Congratulations to Marco Bucci for his victory in the regional elections in Liguria! Once again, the united center-right has been able to respond to the expectations of citizens, who confirm their trust in our policies and in the concreteness of our projects”, states the prime minister and leader of FdI on social media Giorgia Meloni. «With his leadership, Liguria will be able to count on a capable and determined administrator, ready to work tirelessly for the good of all Ligurians – adds Meloni -. Forward, together, with the same dedication that guides our action throughout Italy.” Antonio Tajani was also satisfied and congratulated, underlining the “victory of good governance”.
«Bucci won – rejoices Claudio Scajola, plenipotentiary of the centre-right in Imperia -. He will be a great president of Liguria. From Ponente, who has made a great contribution, best wishes for his good work come to him.” The surprise, among the parties, however, comes from the Democratic Party which exceeds, with a real exploit, 28 percent of the votes, followed by Fdi at 14.8, by the civic list that supports the new governor at 9.4, by the Lega at 8.5, from Fi at 7.9 and Avs at 6.2, Orgoglio Liguria at 5.7%, Orlando Presidente at 5.4 and the 5 stars at 4.6, more than halved compared to 10.2 per percent of the European elections and 12.7 of the 2022 elections. Of course, Bucci’s victory does not have the numbers of the previous elections, when Giovanni Toti was reconfirmed as leader of the Region supported by the entire center-right: Toti then obtained reconfirmation with 383,053 votes, 56.13% of the total, followed by the candidate of the broad centre-left camp-M5S (without Italia Viva)-Ferruccio Sansa with 265,506 votes, stuck at 38.90%. Giovanni Toti, who resigned from office due to his legal troubles, remained in the background of these elections, among other things, providing candidate Bucci with that civic key which, according to Claudio Scajola, should have been the vote-catcher of the coalition . In the centre-left the most striking figure is the dramatic decline of the Five Star Movement, the main cause of Renzi’s dismissal and of thatItalia viva which, confirming its support for Marco Bucci in the Municipality of Genoa, played on the opposite side. Of course, Orlando – who with Schlein supported until the last moment the activation of that ‘wide field in which he placed a large part of his hopes of recovering Liguria after 9 years of centre-right government – probably did not expect this result and the defeat of the 5 stars. And the M5s – the centre-left thinks – also seems to have failed to withstand the shock wave of the internal controversies between Giuseppe Conte and Beppe Grillo. “Today they lost Conte and those who put vetoes,” claims Renzi.
The Bucci idea, after a long back and forth in the alliance, was born from Salvini, Tajani and Melonibut it was the prime minister herself who made the decisive phone call to convince the mayor of Genoa to take the field. Also for this reason, even if some of the allies underline the decline in Fdi, in the via della Scrofa party it is noted that the victory that is announced for Bucci is mainly due to Meloni.
But it is the entire center-right that is preparing to celebrate. Western Liguria was decisive, the civic lists were important, but having conquered the region again is considered “an extraordinary result”. “We have stopped the centre-left’s push against the government”, the ‘refrain’ in the political forces that support the executive, “and we have stopped the judges’ attack”. “The Ligurians have chosen well, work pays,” says League leader Salvini. «The objective was to win all together», says the organizational manager of Fratelli d’Italia, Giovanni Donzelli, «the center-left said it had victory in its pocket and once again it crashed into reality».
The events involving the former governor Giovanni Toti have been forgotten for some time, the electoral campaign was based on the differences between “those who say yes and those who say no”, on those who “want infrastructure and those who look to the past” .
Marco Bucci was born in Genoa on 31 October 1959. Former manager of numerous industries in Italy, Switzerland and the USA. He first attended the Andrea D’Oria classical high school and then the University of Genoa, where between 1979 and 1985 he graduated in both pharmacy and chemistry and pharmaceutical technologies. From the mid-80s to the end of the 90s he worked in the chemical sector for 3M, then moved to Kodak from 1999 to 2006, and then to Carestream Health from 2007 to 2016, taking on managerial roles in expansion plans for several brands in the world) In his career as a manager in the pharmaceutical industry, he lived and worked in Ferrania, Genoa, Geneva (Switzerland) and Rochester (United States). From October 2015 to June 2017 he was CEO of Liguria Digitale. Mayor of Genoa In the 2017 administrative elections, candidate for mayor for the centre-right made up of FI, Lega Nord, FdI Alleanza Nazionale, Direzione Italia-Lista Musso and the civic list Vince Genova. He goes to the ballot with the centre-left candidate with 38.89% of the vote and will win with 55.24%, thus becoming the first centre-right mayor of Genoa after the Second World War, and the first to lead a non-centre-left council since 1975. Yes he is running again for mayor in the 2022 municipal elections, supported by the Toti lists for Bucci, Forza Italia, Lega, FdI Gente d’Italia, Udc, Nuovo Psi and by the civic lists Vince Genova and Genova Domani. On 13 June he was re-elected in the first round with 55.49% of the preferences (equal to 112,457 votes), with a gap of over 17 percentage points from his centre-left opponent Ariel Dello Strologo. Among the first commitments he will make will concern infrastructure, including the Gronda di Genova, the third crossing and the new dam. Bucci is also committed to the Genoa-Turin high-speed train and the improvement of connections between the coast and the hinterland. But healthcare represents the focal point of his program with the construction of four new hospitals and the increase in resources for medical services. One chapter of his program concerns the Energy Valley, with a commitment quantifiable at 300 million euros to support the entrepreneurial fabric and the financing of start-ups.