Seats open from 7 for the second election day. There are 12,147,040 voters called to the polls, distributed in 14,505 sections. It will be possible to vote until 3 pm. The total number of voters at 11 pm yesterday recorded by the Interior Ministry for the municipal elections is 41.65%. In 2016 – when we voted in a single day – it was 61.49%. This administrative round involves 1,153 municipalities but the data released by the Ministry of the Interior does not take into account the municipalities in progress in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Decrease in turnout in the main cities: from Milan, where participation was higher than in other realities with 37.76%, to Naples (bottom with 33.72%), passing through Rome (36.82%) ), Bologna (35.19%) and Turin (36.50%), the number of voters stopped well below 40 percent. The risk is that today, with the polls closed, in some of these large centers it will not even be possible to reach and override the 50% turnout.
The challenges that matter most are those in the six regional capitals – Bologna, Milan, Naples, Rome, Turin and Trieste – then the game of the Regionals in Calabria and two by-elections of the Chamber, in the 12th district of Tuscany (12 single-member constituency – Siena ), where Enrico Letta is a candidate, and in the XV Lazio 1 district (single-member constituency 11 – Rome – Primavalle district). The big names voted yesterday morning: everyone observed the rule of silence, limiting themselves to an appeal on social media to participate, to avoid the risk of affirmation of the non-voting party. Enrico Letta posted the image of two crossed fingers, Giuseppe Conte, also on social media, urged everyone to vote, recalling that “voting is the most elementary and at the same time most decisive gesture for exercising democratic rights”, to be performed “with joy”.
According to Giorgia Meloni, “at a time when our freedoms and rights are being limited, voting is even more the highest democratic expression”. “I have done my duty as a citizen, you?” He concludes. Only Silvio Berlusconi, after having voted in his Milanese seat, talked with the reporters talking about Quirinale, the federation of the center-right and hoping for primaries for the future selection of mayoral candidates. An electoral round troubled by the Fanpage affair, the journalistic investigation into the relations between the Brothers of Italy and milanese extremist circles.