Verona municipal elections, ballot also in Jesolo, Feltre and Thiene. The voting guide
Venice, 24 June 2022 – Four cities return to the vote, in Veneto more than 264 thousand citizens they will be called to the polls for the ballot on Sunday 26 June. IS Verona the only provincial capital yet to be delivered, here the challenge is important and totally unexpected. For the first time in many years, the center-left managed to besiege the Northern League fort, with the former footballer Damiano Tommasi (39.77%) a clear advantage over the outgoing mayor, Federico Sborina (3272%).
Here the match it became nationalwith the second round the future of the alignments is played: if the center-left wins, it will be an important red bandirina in the “land of the center-right”, who will have to deal with an important internal rift, if instead Sboarina is reconfirmed it will be necessary to work to regroup light lines in view of the regional elections of 2025.
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Ballot Verona, the challenge is national. It is the center-right to risk the most
There are three other Venetian cities that go to the ballot: Feltre in the Belluno area (who are the candidates), Jesolo in the Venetian (who are the candidates) e Thiene in the Vicenza area (who are the candidates).
In Emilia, however, they return to the polls Parma and Piacenza.
Summary:
When you vote. The ballot will be Sunday 26 June: voting will take place in a single day, followed by the counting of the ballots. The polling stations will remain open from 7 in the morning to 23 in the evening. To vote it will be necessary to show a identity card valid and the electoral card.
There will be no obligation to wear the maskthat all “strongly recommended” according to the national health protocol. It will be important sanitize your hands before receiving the card ballot box and the pencil from the security president, so as to be able to return it and insert it in the ballot box in all for those who will then have to carry out the scrutiny operations. An “ad hoc” signage will indicate i paths to follow inside the polling station, where the voters still keep the safety distance of one meter to avoid crowds and respect for the elderly and frail.
I’m let’s vote all citizens of age present in the electoral lists. EU citizens residing in Italy can also vote for the ballot, after registering with the electoral lists.
Come sI vote. Voters will receive a single blue card with the names of the candidates foreseen mayor of the city. There will be no party symbols and spaces to write preferences: you only vote the name of the chosen person with a cross or a sign on the name or within the space. “The vote is expressed by drawing a mark on one of the two rectangles containing the name of the chosen candidate for mayor ”, the Ministry of the Interior announced.
Here is the card that voters will be at the polls on Sunday
According to the indications provided by the Ministry of the Interior, the counting operations 2022 municipal elections will begin immediately after voting closes: at 11 pm on Sunday 26 June. After making the closing operationswith the compilation of the first minutes and the opposite seal on the envelope of the unused cardsstarts with the opening of the urn and the ballot of votes.
Only two names per card, just a mark on the name with no preferences. It will be a quick ballot, with the counting of valid votes – in addition to the examination of the blank, void and contested ballots – for the two candidates admitted to the ballot. The name of the winner, or of the winner in the case of Piacenza, will already be there during the night, but the confirmation will take place only on June 27th, with the closure of all polling stations. It will then be the area electoral commission a courage the imprimatur official to the elected mayor with the review of any disputes.
Without apparent officersit will be one solo sprint for the two Veronese candidates who, do not get to convince the voters to return to the polls on a Sunday in early summer, but instead reach that large slice of citizens who at the first disserted the urn. On 12 June, in fact, theturnout it was high compared to other Italian cities, but did not go beyond 55.08% of the 202,638 entitled, down from 58.81 five years ago. This will be precisely the tip of the balance for the outgoing mayor Federico Sboarina, aware that the center-left voters will try to go en masse to vote, driven by the dream of conquering a green colored citywith the League in command.
The challenge will be between the center-left of Damiano Tommasi – in the lead with the 39.77% and 42,971 votes – and the lame center-right, without Forza Italia in coalition, of the outgoing center-right mayor Federico Sborinafinished second with the 32.71% And 35,337 consents. The gap is wide between the two opponents, Sboarina will have to recover the over 7,600 votes that divide him from Tommasi: on the plate there are the almost 26 thousand votes of the new force player Flavio Tosi, which in the ballot he declared to promote for the center-right, but there are no agreements. To complicate the picture, there is one dispute over a seat which, at the moment, has not yet been assigned.
Strategic city of the Venetian coast, Jesolo it is an important tourist center that appeals to everyone. He is the only one, among the nine municipalities that went to vote, to go to the ballot. The Jesolo one will be a challenge entirely internal to the center-right, where they will go to the ballot the candidate of a coalition trained by Brothers of Italy, Cristofer De Zotti – ahead with the 44.9% and 5.326 votes – versus Lega and Forza Italia, allies on the side of Renato Martino, behind with The 39.22% And 4,653 consents. Less than 700 divided votes I had to challengers. Finished according to the mandate of the mayor Valerio Zoggia, the Carroccio tries the card of continuity with Martin, former mayor of Jesolo for two terms, from 1993 to 2002.
At five years old, Jesolo lost nearly nine points of turnout: last June 12 voted the 53.87% of the 22,684 voters, against 62.1% of 2017. A physiological decline that led to the vote only 12.220 citizens. In contrast to the trend compared to other cities, the votes collected by the parties are higher (10.993) with respect to the preferences of the four candidates for mayor (11,863). I was 262 the void ballots, 93 the white ones And 2 those disputed.
Important town in the Dolomites, Feltre he failed to elect the new mayor in the first round, as was the case for Belluno, the provincial capital, and for 10 other municipalities in the area. Here the center-right has the advantage with the only woman on the field in this Venetian ballot, the Northern League Viviana Fusarò has in fact conquered the 52.19% And 4,216 votes. Just over 200 cards the division from the opponent of the center, the Dem Adi Zatta, that Sunday will arrive at the polls forte dei 4.013 consents obtained in the first round, equal to 45% of voters.
In Feltre, theturnout at the polls in the first round it was very low: only the 46.32% of the 19,779 entitled, against 52.19% five years ago: the recovery margin for both candidates is still high, the game is still to be played. On June 12, they have voted 9.162 felt pads they expressed 8,917 votes for the four candidates for mayor And 8,083 for symbols. Of all the cards scrutinized, they turned out 153 the null and void And 92 the white ones. No card was contested.
IS the largest municipality in the Vicenza area, Thiene is the only one over 15 thousand inhabitants that goes to the balottaggio. Here the duel is played on free time activities that can revive the city: on June 26, in fact, the outgoing councilor for Sport will face off, Alreadynantonio Michelusi of the center-left, in the lead with The 49.23% And 4.541 votes, and the former president of the local Proloco: Manuel Benetti, center-right candidate, second with the 30.96% And 2,856 votes.
T.against the votes to be recovered, in Thiene the dispersion of voters was among the highest: less than half of the citizens voted in the first round, only the 49.94% of the 19.106 voters showed up at the polls, against the 58.06% of 2017. Among the 9,542 voters, I’ve been there 181 null ballots, 127 white and no dispute.