He wins in the sprint in the middle of the night a Lucca – and provokes the reversal in favor of the center-right -, the entrepreneur Mario Pardini, 49 years old, who in hours of controversy over divided moderates and losers in Italy, here gives the exception that confirms the rule. Pardini was able to bring together votes from the center, the right and also unscrupulously from the extreme right like Casapound. The consensus was scattered in the first round in other nominations. Pardini (51.03%) gave two points of difference on the Pd-Sinistra-Verdi man Francesco Raspini (48.97%), who also received energetic investitures on the field from his party leader Enrico Letta and also from Carlo Calenda , who came to Lucca to support him in person, as well as by an appeal from high-profile intellectuals who, under the Tambellini junta, animated key roles in the city. Reinforcements weren’t enough. Tonight with three fifths of the count (86 sections in all), Pardini overtook and detached Raspini by bringing a very marked center-right majority to the Municipality: in addition to Fdi, Lega, Fi, Udc, to his civic, the former president of Lucca Crea (the body that organizes Lucca Comics), will have to take into account the support received for the ballot from candidates who had presented themselves with right-wing civic lists (even extreme as Cp) and with Italexit, and from transversal movements of the No vax galaxy and No pass (they weigh 3% in the city, but the candidate for mayor Colombini is over 4%).
In the weeks leading up to the ballot, the bells for Pardini and anti Pd have been accentuated. The voice of the orchestra conductor Alberto Veronesi, candidate with Rinascimento Sgarbi, Iv + Europa and Action in the first round, has raised the voice against the Dems, who motivated the Pardini option with the plaster cast inflicted on the city by 10 years of Dem management . Suspicions of Pardini’s victory also weigh on another Lucchese, the heretic of the Democratic Party Giorgio Del Ghingaro, in certain times given up for close to Renzi, current mayor in exile in Viareggio (for the center-left) and previously mayor of the populous Capannori (40,000 inhabitants and strong industrial center). Now Lucca, former pre-unification capital, the only white province (it was an absolute fiefdom of the DC) in the First Republic, a land of great volunteerism, with a still alive and protagonist manufacturing and a residual autonomous capacity to exercise credit, home to excellent and targeted cultural initiatives of international success, it raises the provincial capitals of ‘red’ Tuscany controlled by the center-right to 7 out of 10 (the others are Arezzo, Siena, Grosseto, Pisa, Massa, Pistoia just reconfirmed with an Fdi mayor). Municipal councils where the majorities are animated by representatives of Lega, Fdi, Fi-Udc. Florence, Prato and Livorno, the three cities with the most residents, and the Region remain under the control of the Democratic Party. A vote that clearly marks the consolidation of different political and socio-economic languages in Tuscany: those of cities less and less satellites of the ‘dominant’ Florence and committed to seeking autonomous development paths from the regional capital.
Source: Ansa
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