Polls open today, Monday 4 October, from 7 to 15: for the second day, the citizens of Milan and those of 235 other Lombard municipalities can vote to choose their new mayors. At 3 pm the polling stations close and, from that moment on, the counting of the votes for mayors, municipal councils and – in the case of Milan – also for the councils of the nine municipalities begins. A count that you could follow live on the Repubblica website.
How to vote in Milan on 3 and 4 October for the 2021 municipal elections: from seats to double preferences. But you don’t need the Green Pass
Five years ago the administrative elections were held in a single day, Sunday 5 June, with the ballot on 19 June: the turnout in Milan in the first round, in that case, closed at 55.18% of the entitled and with a game for the second round completely open.
The ballot paper is crowded at this turn: there are 13 candidates for mayor, 28 in total the supporting lists and over a thousand – 1,197, between 661 men and 536 women – the candidates for city councilors. In the photo of enlarged group, the outgoing Beppe Sala – who is re-nominated accompanied by eight lists: Pd, Riformisti, civic Beppe Sala, Milano Unita, the Radicals, civic Milano in Salute, Europa Verde and Volt – will have to contend not only with Luca Bernardo – with him Lega, Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia, Milano Popolare, the civic Bernardo and that of the European Liberal Party -, the pediatrician chosen by the center-right to attempt the reconquest of Palazzo Marino, and with Layla Pavone, the manager wanted by Giuseppe Conte to inaugurate the new course of the ‘suò M5S in the economic capital, but also with two competitors who openly ride the No Vax and No Green Pass positions and five political proposals to the left of the center-left with three parties that lead engraved in the logo the word communist. Teodosio De Bonis, 68 years old in October, doctor specializing in “anesthesiology and resuscitation”, face in the city of the 3V Movement, a party born in 2019 to ask for “truth” and “put” human well-being and health at the center of every political action “who by now, with the cry of” Vaccini we want the truth “, is riding the campaign against the vaccine. Gianluigi Paragone, who says no to the Green Pass and the obligation to vaccinate and who comes accompanied by his Mayor Comparison list and the Great North.
On the left, the field is crowded. There is Gabriele Mariani, candidate for a “red-green” coalition with the Milano in Comune and Civica Ambientalista lists that aims, he says, to inherit a part of Giuliano Pisapia’s orange experience. There is Bianca Tedone, the militant of Power to the People who wants to fight, she explains, above all to represent precarious young people. And there are three representatives of parties that have Communism in the acronym. Besides Christmas Azzaretto of the Communist Workers’ Party, which had already run as a candidate in 2016 and 2011, is there Marco Muggiani with the Italian Communist Party list and there is Alessandro Pascale of the Communist Party of Marco Rizzo, which in addition to the list for Palazzo Marino is also presented in Town Hall 3. The socialist tradition is represented by Giorgio Goggi, the former transport councilor of Gabriele Albertini who runs with two lists, that of the Socialists and that of the Liberals. In the end, Mauro Festa, lawyer expert in digital and new technologies, chosen as the face of the Gay Party for LGBT + rights, solidarity, environmentalist, liberal. And the Milan civic list Starts Here, described as an “independent and post ideological force”, led by Bryant Biavaschi.
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