Abruzzo reconfirms Marco Marsilio (centre-right) as leader of the region. When 99 sections out of 1634 remain to be scrutinized. The Melonian, very close to the encoreeffectively announces the victory and the conquest of the second mandate as governor after the 2024 regional elections. After the closing of the polls, with the projections arriving after two exit polls, the gap with the former rector Luciano D’Amico is on 7-9 points (53 for the Melonian, 46 for the broad field exponent). Based on the seventh projection of pollster Antonio Noto (55% coverage), exclusively on ‘Rete8’, the centre-right candidate is at 54.1% while the challenger supported by the centre-left is at 45.9%. The coalition in support of Marsilio is at 56% while that in support of D’Amico is at 44%. When 99 sections out of 1634 remain to be scrutinized, Marsilio is at 53.57% while D’Amico is at 46.43%..
RESULTS IN REAL TIME
At list level, based on the eighth projection the first party confirms itself as Brothers of Italy with 24.9%. Followed by the Democratic Party with 18.4%, Forza Italia at 13.4%, the League at 8.4%, the Abruzzo Insieme-D’Amico Presidente list at 7.9%, the Five Star Movement at 7, 1%, the Marsilio Presidente list at 5.4%, Azione -D’Amico at 4.1%. The Green Alliance-Left is at 3.7%, D’Amico president – Civic Reformists at 2.8%, We Moderates at 2.5%, UDC-DC at 1.4%.
Marsilio: “There was no head-to-head”
“Someone underestimated us and at midnight they were still talking about a head-to-head match that never existed except in the dreams of those who tried to tell about another Abruzzo, not the one the voters chose”, says Marsilio upon his arrival at the electoral committee in breaking latest news, welcomed by the chorus “There’s only one president”. “The people of Abruzzo have chosen to give me the honor of leading the region for another 5 years. Never in the previous 30 years had an outgoing administration been reconfirmed for a second mandate. A page of history has been written and another wall has been knocked down” , he adds. “Did I hear from Meloni? She went to sleep calm and happy”, he replies to the reporters.
“We asked for another 5 years to continue growing and complete the relaunch work, reconstruction and valorisation that we are putting in place. I express my profound thanks to the people of Abruzzo for this immense privilege they grant me. This is the mission of my life: to give back to the land of my fathers the strength, the dignity, the role it deserves”, he continues. “The truth won against lies and slander, spread liberally. Facts and the reality principle won against vague narratives and empty chatter. The people of Abruzzo want to look to the future and have shown that they have no nostalgia for a sad past that they put behind them 5 years ago”, he continues. “The wide field is not the future of Abruzzo, because it was its sad past, and will not be the future of Italy. My commitment will be even more intense”, adds the governor. “We can go and dance”, he jokes just before 3 in the morning.
Center-right party
In Marsilio’s committee in breaking latest news there was enthusiasm right from the first exit polls. The Forzista mayor Carlo Masci speaks of “positive data for Marsilio and for the centre-right coalition, which can only please us”. The Northern League member Francesco De Santis, spokesperson for the region, immediately goes unbalanced: “I think the game is over”. “It clearly appears that the people of Abruzzo preferred a united centre-right government to a broad camp that was probably a bit confusing”, says Guerino Testa, Fdi MP. Minister Daniela Santanchè breaks the deadlock on the Abruzzo vote, limiting herself to an “and go”, on X.
“It is a result that fills us with joy because it is the demonstration that this united center-right knows how to govern, knows how to be appreciated by the people. Unfortunately there has been a denigration campaign in recent days which has not done the political system any good, but the citizens of Abruzzo did not take all this into account”, says the coordinator of Forza Italia in Abruzzo, Nazario Pagano. “I am happy that Marsilio is president of the regional council, he did well, stopping him would have been a sensational mistake. I would add that my party here reaches very high levels, because it seems that we have well exceeded 14%”, observes the blue exponent .
Centre-left defeated
No official comment in breaking latest news from Luciano D’Amico’s electoral committee, with the point postponed to Monday morning’s press conference. Stefania Pezzopane, former senator and municipal councilor of the Democratic Party in L’Aquila, intervenes from the Democratic Party and seems to be putting her hands forward: “in any case, the center-left has started again. What we have done is important, it can be a message that we send to Italy” . The definitive figure is that of voter turnout which is slightly decreasing. The definitive figure is 52.2%, against 53.11% in 2019. A decline which in the analyzes close to the vote would have favored the centre-right.
Turnout
At 11pm the definitive turnout (1,634 sections out of 1,634) was 52.2%, according to data from the Eligendo system of the Interior Ministry. A figure slightly decreasing compared to the previous electoral round in 2019, when 53.11% of voters had voted.