Who won the 2022 municipal elections: a reasoned analysis of the vote – Politics

When nine million citizens go to the polls, the vote is never trivial. And that was not the case. The verdicts from the referendum and the first round of the 2022 municipal elections spoke clearly, and were not music to anyone’s ears. The only one to rejoice is perhaps Calenda, who scores some good results, and sees the idea of ​​a sort of interposition force – once it would have been called the third pole – in the midst of what he calls the “bipopulisms”. The center-right cannot claim victory for the result in the referendums, and not even for the municipal ones. The referendum was a debacle, and the lowest turnout ever (without the concomitance with the administrative ones the participants would not have gone beyond 15/16 percent) on one of the alliance’s identity issues is an own goal that is difficult to digest. Matteo Salvini, who personally promoted them, comes out worse, but even Forza Italia historically champion of guarantee cannot rejoice, and neither can Brothers of Italy. Meloni has raised three out of five questions, of course, and therefore saves face better, but as a party at this largest point in the coalition she too takes a few dents. In the referendum affair, the center-right did not in fact reason as a coalition but allowed everyone to do it by themselves and for themselves, and these are the fruits collected. Highlighting how the internal compactness is at the same time its plus and its minus. In fact, the coalition is fine where he can play as a team, but it is precisely the compactness that has failed in recent years. Since Berlusconi’s center of gravity has waned in importance, the Salvini-Maloni internal derby has been unleashed, which does not bode well. The bad evidence of …