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ROME. First note: Covid did not scare the Italians, who went to the polls anyway, even wearing a mask. With a 53.8% turnout, it can be said that the referendum convinced voters to leave their homes. An unexpected result, especially where there was no vote for local authorities. Perhaps a desire to return to normality.
The referendum on the reduction of the number of parliamentarians, with around 70% of Yes and only 30% of No, is the main novelty of the day. The winners are especially those who, like Luigi Di Maio and the M5S, wanted this cut from MPs. However, very reassured by the referendum vote, there is also the Secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, who had found himself struggling with a divided party, and many noble fathers who campaigned for No. Zingaretti believed in the Yes, linking it to an upcoming reform of the electoral law, and he won the bet. Less significant and convinced was the adherence to the Yes of Matteo Salvini or Giorgia Meloni, who will derive a lower political dividend. Dry defeat, however, for the only leader who was groped by the No: the elderly Silvio Berlusconi.
For the secretary of the Democratic Party, the bet was twofold. And it seemed so difficult on the eve that someone had already speculated about his resignation. The eyes were fixed on the possession of the Regions led by the center-left: Tuscany, Puglia, Campania and Marche. Well, there was no push from the center right.
The Tuscany, although with many fears, he endured: the center-left candidate Eugenio Giani navigates around 48.6% against the center-right rival Susanna Ceccardi, who remains at 40.5. “There was not a moment when I was afraid of losing – says Giani – but there was a moment when all these messages that linked Tuscany to a national scene annoyed me.”
So he Puglia: Michele Emiliano leads with 46.9% against Raffaele Fitto with 38.9%. He did very well because he had to face the candidates of Renzi and the M5S. “Many Apulians who would have also voted for the M5S probably preferred a useful vote.”
And then there is the success of Vincenzo De Luca in Campania, which with 69.6% of the votes collects triple the votes of Stefano Caldoro, with 17.9%. From Luca, who feels beyond right and left, and appreciates “the unity of the people, the positive energies, the healthy forces, the productive world.”
In the end, the center-right wins only one Region, the Market, with the candidate Francesco Acquaroli, FdI, about 49.1% of the vote when the center-left challenger Maurizio Mangialardi is at 37.3%. A victory for him and for Giorgia Meloni who really loved her. And it is a significant success because the Marches have been ruled by the center-left for the last 25 years.
In Liguria, Giovanni Toti is confirmed with an excellent result (around 56.1%) and can legitimately boast of having been the only center-right candidate who has beaten a unitary representative of the Pd and the M5S, the journalist Ferruccio Sansa, detained in 38.9%.
Superlative, then, is Luca Zaia’s success in Veneto, confirmed in his third term with more than 76.8% of the votes. Even his personal list humiliates the official of the League and without a doubt, although everyone denies it verbally, the dualism with Matteo Salvini is consolidated. The poor center-left challenger, Arturo Lorenzoni, paralyzed by Covid, barely exceeds 15.7%.
Di Zaia also jumps into the eyes of his first comment, far from Salvinian tones: “It is a vote of the Venetians for the Veneto, for those who have been here for generations, those of adoption and newcomers who have a life project in Veneto “. … ». Everyone, including migrants.
In short, these regional elections are marked above all by the reconfirmation of the outgoing governors. To the left it was not obvious. Toti acknowledges: “The award to the center-left is for some governors who have my personal esteem, such as De Luca and Emiliano, for their serious government.”
And if Zingaretti smiles, Di Maio can claim a referendum success that obscures the substantial failure of the grillini in these administrative offices. «I believe – says the Chancellor – that someone has tried to transform this referendum into a referendum against the government. And so he received against a boomerang, given the result.
– The results of the REFERENDUM
– The result of the REGIONAL
* Campania
* Liguria
* Market
* Tuscany
* Puglia
* Aosta Valley
* Veneto
