Final results have confirmed that the centre-right coalition won in the first round in Genoa, Palermo and L’Aquila, without the need for a runoff vote, in an important set of local elections held on Sunday.
Verona, Parma and Catanzaro are set to have runoffs, with the centre left ahead in the first two and the centre right on top in the latter.
Of the 26 provincial capitals where votes were held, the centre right won, or was close to winning, nine in the first round, with the centre left taking four.
The contests in the other 13 are going to runoffs, with the centre right ahead in six and the centre left in front in seven.
The driving force of the centre right’s strong showing was Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy (FDI) party, the only major group not supporting Premier Mario Draghi’s government of national unity.
It landed 10.3% of the vote, overtaking Matteo Salvini’s League, which got 6.7%, while ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (FI) got 4.6%.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) wad the individual party to bag most votes – 17.2%.
The 5-Star Movement (M5S), which generally struggles in local elections, did especially badly this time with just 2.1%.
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