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The polls are open again for the referendum, awaiting the first polls in the afternoon. Today, Monday, September 21, voting takes place until 3:00 p.m.
Touch 40% theto turn off recorded in mineral 23 Sunday, September 20. In total the 39.38% of those empowered went to the polls to comment on the referendum on cutting parliamentarians, which sees the polls open from this morning at 7. As it is a confirmatory referendum, it is not necessary to reach a quorum for it to be valid.
Italians are called to confirm or not the approved reform that foresees, from the next legislature, a total scissors of 345 deputies (230 deputies and 115 fewer senators).
In addition to the referendum, there will also be voting for the regional ones, in total there will be seven affected Regions, for the administrative ones in more than 1,100 municipalities and for the complementary elections to the Senate in the schools Sardinia 03 and Veneto 09.
This is the first election date in the time of a pandemic: Along with a strict health protocol, the government has also established a return to double-day voting. Polling stations have been opened Sunday until 11pm. Monday You can vote from 07:00 to 15:00.
Consequently, it will be a long marathon that can be followed in Diretta live down, waiting for the release of exit poll and gods official results with the first data that will begin to be released from 3:00 p.m. on Monday.
Cut of the referendum of parliamentarians: LIVE LIVE of the vote
07:00 – Seats open again, until 3:00 p.m.
00:28 – The ministry provides data ongeneral participation in Italy, arriving at 11 p.m. on September 20 39.38%.
23:50 – All mineral 23 participation was equal to 39.46% as reported by the Minister of the Interior, in the analysis of 7,828 municipalities out of 7,903.
23:00 – the first day Voting at 11:00 pm Citizens who have not yet expressed their opinion in the referendum that provides for the reduction of parliamentarians will be able to do so tomorrow from 7:00 to 15:00.
22:27 – Even the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, currently in isolation at Arcore, has voiced his opinion preference at your residence as established by the protocol provided for people in quarantine.
20:33 – At 7:00 p.m.to turn off at the polls equal to 30.2% of voters, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior based on data from the 7,903 municipalities
17:21 – Civil protection, municipal employees and even police asked in almost all regions of Italy to replace the many absent among the staff assigned to the elections.
These last three figures -especially municipal employees- were the object of the gratitude of many mayors, willing to underline their availability that is guaranteeing the correct development of the electoral day throughout the beautiful country.
16:47 – The mayor of Milan, Beppe Sala, you just finished voting at a polling station in the city center. Intercepted by the press present, he also commented on the situation regarding the absence of hundreds of tellers and presidents, in Milan as in many other regions.
For Sala, many of these defections are attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing and consistent fears of contagion at a public and potentially risky event such as an election. But – continues the mayor – Milan “He responded positively, with up to 18 presidents who are municipal employees intervened to cover the absences”.
15:48 – Guarantees arise from the Ministry of the Interior proper conduct of elections, despite the numerous absences recorded in various Regions between Presidents and tellers:
“The prefectures have informed us that all the headquarters in the country have been duly established. Certainly there have been critical issues, but they have been overcome thanks to the commendable work of the mayors and municipal offices in charge of organizing the squares ”,
declared the prefect Caterina D’Amato.
15:12 – First Giuseppe Conte vote in Rome. Going alone, the Prime Minister quickly voted in a seat in the center of the capital, dedicating a few words to the press that intercepted him:
“Each vote is an expression of democratic participation, and it is always expected that citizen participation will not be lacking. Today I voted in science and conscience. “
14:57 – Carlo Calenda, one of the most active political figures in the front of the NO to the Referendum, shared an article by Mattia Feltri focused on the reasons for today’s contrary vote and the criticism of the process that led the 5-Star Movement to reach the electoral appointment:
“The unbearable thing about Luigi Di Maio and the 5-star MoVimento is not the use of blue cars, epicurean staff and state planes; but rather the pretense of continuing with the rhetoric of the tuna can after having eaten it ”.
14:27 – In all seats the over 65 they have the right to a ‘preferential lane’ to streamline voting operations and reduce exposure times to possible meetings and, consequently, the risk of contagion.
13:39 – Luigi di maio goes to the polls in Pomigliano and wishes “Good grades everyone” when leaving the voting booth. The Chancellor is one of the most fervent supporters of the Yes, as indeed the entire 5-Star Movement, promoter of the measure.
13:20 – Also to Torino almost half of the presidents of the polls and hundreds of tellers did not appear. The municipality has prepared all the replacements and the polling stations function regularly
13:09 – In 100 presidential seats that Milan they did not appear. The municipality has recently announced, however, that all replacements have been made on time and the operation is at 100%.
12:47 – In many reports of absences between cashiers and presidents seats in many regions. The newspaper La Repubblica tells the story of a seat president in Rome who recruited tellers in the street a few minutes after the polls opened. The very high number of absences seems to be mainly due to fear of the risk of contagion from the coronavirus.
12:34 – To turn off all’12.26% at 12 for the referendum on the reduction of parliamentarians, which sees the polls open from this morning at 7. The figure came a few minutes ago and counts the trend of the voting quota for the first 5 hours of voting.
11:06 – The pencil must be disinfected after each use in polling stations. The Vice Minister of Health reiterated this Pierpaolo sileri, speaking of these and the like as procedures that must become practical in what you have defined “New normal”, which we face in everyday life given the coronavirus pandemic still in full swing.
10:21: The first news related to the absences of the same voting staff in various regions begins to leak: also in Naples 200 chairmen seats they did not show up for fear of contagion.
10:10: am 46 million Italians Called to the polls, but for many the fear is that of massive abstention, also being linked to the current health emergency and fear of contagion.
08:33 – Yesterday in Potenza, the president of an electoral college tested positive for Covid, so it was necessary to replace all the ATMs and an extraordinary cleanup.
07:58 – As it is a constitutional referendum, no quorum is expected.
07:39 – Despite the strict sanitary protocol, there are currently no problems related to voting.
07:05 – In addition to the obligation to wear a mask and respect social distancing, people with fever or respiratory symptoms are invited to stay home.
07:00 – Open seats throughout Italy.
Exit survey
the exit poll These are surveys carried out by the different research institutes directly on the day of the vote outside the polling stations, when voters are interviewed after having expressed their preference.
For this reason they are considered much more reliable than traditional surveys, who instead ask the intention to vote and not what was voted, understanding that a citizen can always lie in both cases.
By law in Italy, exit polls cannot be broadcast while voting is still in progress, but only when polling stations closed so as not to influence voters’ choices.
The first exit polls referendum on cutting parliamentarians therefore, they can only be issued after 3:00 p.m. on Monday 21, or when voting operations will be completed.
The official results
If ballot boxes will be published only after polling stations close, for the official results regarding the referendum we will have to wait more. First to the Senate seat Sardinia 03 (province of Sassari) e Veneto 09 (Province of Verona) the scrutiny of the supplementary elections will take place first.
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In all the rest of Italy the counting of the ballots will begin immediately after the closing of the polling stations set for 3:00 p.m. on Monday 21, thus giving priority to the referendum over regional and administrative ones.
Consequently, the first official results should start to arrive. mid afternoon to become then end at night, unless there are setbacks also due to the necessary sanitary protocol established for this election day.
