Centre-left candidates won resounding victories in mayoral elections in Rome and Turin, results showed on Monday, sweeping aside centre-right opponents amid a record-low turnout.
By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Centre-left candidates won resounding victories in mayoral elections in Rome and Turin, results showed on Monday, sweeping aside centre-right opponents amid a record-low turnout. The votes on Sunday and Monday complete a round of centre-left triumphs in Italy s largest cities and mark a setback for the rightist alliance which is nonetheless favourite to win the next national election due in 2023. Centre-left candidates had already easily won Milan, Naples and Bologna two weeks ago without the need for a run-off. In Rome, former Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri from the Democratic Party (PD), was projected to win by 60% to 40% against the right s Enrico Michetti, an impregnable lead with the count still underway. I won t disappoint you . now we begin a task of extraordinary intensity to relaunch Rome, Gualtieri told reporters, promising to turn the city into a champion of the ecological transition . He faces an arduous task to fix the
By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Centre-left candidates won resounding victories in mayoral elections in Rome and Turin, results showed on Monday, sweeping aside centre-right opponents amid a record-low turnout. The votes on Sunday and Monday complete a round of centre-left triumphs in Italy s largest cities and mark a setback for the rightist alliance which is nonetheless favourite to win the next national election due in 2023. Centre-left candidates had already easily won Milan, Naples and Bologna two weeks ago without the need for a run-off. In Rome, former Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri from the Democratic Party (PD), was projected to win by 60% to 40% against the right s Enrico Michetti, an impregnable lead with the count still underway. I won t disappoint you . now we begin a task of extraordinary intensity to relaunch Rome, Gualtieri told reporters, promising to turn the city into a champion of the ecological transition . He faces an arduous task to fix the
By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Centre-left candidates won resounding victories in mayoral elections in Rome and Turin, results showed on Monday, sweeping aside centre-right opponents amid a record-low turnout. The votes on Sunday and Monday complete a round of centre-left triumphs in Italy s largest cities and mark a setback for the rightist alliance which is nonetheless favourite to win the next national election due in 2023. Centre-left candidates had already easily won Milan, Naples and Bologna two weeks ago without the need for a run-off. In Rome, former Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri from the Democratic Party (PD), was projected to win by 60% to 40% against the right s Enrico Michetti, an impregnable lead with the count still underway. I won t disappoint you . now we begin a task of extraordinary intensity to relaunch Rome, Gualtieri told reporters, promising to turn the city into a champion of the ecological transition . He faces an arduous task to fix the