«Vote later», in some polling stations Rome was chaos ballots
Wrong ballots and registers, minutes with missing pre-printed documents, badly printed lists of candidates outside the polling stations: at 7 am the polls in the capital opened but chaos broke out in several polling stations in Rome. In some cases, voters were asked to “go home and come later”. The inefficiencies were reported and found in the sections of some municipalities of the capital, as in III; in the VIII; in the thirteenth; in the fourteenth and fifteenth.
Berlusconi breaks silence, united center-right. And raises primaries
After voting in the Milanese seat in Via Fratelli Ruffini, a stone’s throw from the Last Supper, accompanied by his long-time collaborator and friend Fedele Confalonieri, Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi broke the traditional electoral silence. «Let’s not talk about Quirinale. The center-right is united – he stressed -: we must also join the federation with Fdi. The candidates? Next time we have to select them with democratic choices ». Overall, all the political leaders, who voted on the morning of Sunday 3 October, limited themselves to declarations, launching at most an appeal for participation, in order to avoid the risk of mass abstention. The only one who could not resist the temptation to speak, perhaps thanks to the long post-covid silence, was the Knight himself. Today as has happened other times in the past. The former premier, in full physical recovery (“I’m fine,” he told reporters) announced that after a long time, already next week, he will return to Rome, where he has made it clear that he wants to fully recover the leadership of Forza Italy. Giorgia Meloni, president of Fratelli d’Italia, also spoke on the first election day: she posted a video on social media in the early morning on the Fidanza case raised by the Fanpage investigation, a case defined by the president of FdI as a “poisoned meatball on the eve of the vote “. Even the fire that semi-destroyed the iron bridge over the Ostiense in Rome somehow provoked comments, with open ballot boxes. Always Meloni has in fact attacked in a tweet only the Minister of the Interior and the outgoing mayor of Rome: «It would seem that the fire broke out in an illegal camp. A nation where illegality reigns thanks to the minister Lamorgese. Rome in decay thanks to the Rays junta ».
The first mayor elected in the Brescia area
A curiosity of the first day of voting: the first elected mayor is in the province of Brescia. It is in Ono San Pietro, in Valle Camonica where Fiorenzo Formentelli was the candidate of the only list that presented itself to the administrative offices. In the municipality of the middle Valle Camonica, the quorum of 40% of those entitled to vote (or 319 people) has been exceeded.
In Imperia there are already 10 elected mayors
In the province of Imperia there are already 10 out of 15 municipalities where only one list has been presented that can claim to have been elected because the quorum of 40% plus 1 set to consider valid the vote in municipalities of less than 15,000 inhabitants has been exceeded. Now they are waiting for the validity of 50% plus 1 of the votes. Those elected are in Aurigo, which at 7 pm had a turnout of 52.52%, where Luigi Dellerba is confirmed; to Borghetto D’Arroscia (48.35%), who elects Angela Denegri; in Caravonica (53.09%) with Angelo Dulbecco already outgoing councilor, in Chiusavecchia (48.38% per cent) where Luca Vassallo is reconfirmed. The others are in Cipressa (42.5%) who confirmed Filippo Guasco; in Civezza (43.40%) with Maddalena Ricca, in Lucinasco (47.09%), with Marilena Abbo, in Pompeiana (46.83%), Vincenzo Lanteri becomes mayor, in Rezzo (44.28%), is confirmed Renato Adorno. Valerio Ferrari climbs to Terzorio (55.03%).
Benevento, to the 101-year-old polling stations
Another curiosity: his name is Angelo Capozzi, 101, the oldest voter who went to the polling stations to exercise his right to vote in Benevento where he votes to elect the new mayor and city council.