Genoa, 28 October 2024 – After a photo-finish scrutiny Marco Bucci is the new president of the Liguria Region with a handful of thousands of votes ahead of the main challenger, the broad candidate Andrea Orlando. Genoese, 65 years old next Thursday, Bucci confirms the center-right at the helm of the region, which arrived at the polls early after the judicial earthquake that led to the resignation of the former governor Giovanni Toti.
Bucci: “I will be the president of all Ligurians”
“I will be president of all Ligurians, not only of those who voted”. Marco Bucci said this in the press conference after the victory in the elections for the presidency of the Liguria Region. “I am happy for Liguria above all, for the citizens, because they have said clearly that they want to grow, continue, the lords of the no reject and who don’t want to do the infrastructure and things”, continues the mayor of Genoa. “We have five years of great work to do. Genoa will not be left aside as someone wrote. The president of the Liguria Region must take care of all citizens. We will do it with strength, determination and pride”, he concludes. “Good Liguria is not going back and we are all extremely proud of this. Andrea Orlando called mehe was very kind, it honors him. I thank him. But I have been displeased by the false tones and insults of the electoral campaign: even national leaders have put words in my mouth that I have never said”. However, he concludes, “from all the people I have met I have received esteem and affection”. To those who asked him about new council, Bucci replied: “I have about twenty candidates for the team, give me two-three weeks to discuss with everyone and we’ll see.”
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Heart-pounding scrutiny
The result comes at the end of a hectic day, characterized first by the overtaking of the centre-right coalition candidate and then by a tight head-to-head battle until the last mile, when Bucci, the current mayor of Genoa with a past as a manager, collects the outcome of the vote and becomes the new governor.
Marco Bucci
Supported by Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia, Lega Nord, Udc and Alternativa Popolare, as well as by two civic lists, Bucci made the overtaking when more than 60% of the ballots have been counted. From then on, between the two main candidates it was a tight butt, marked by the increasingly narrow range of Opinio projections for Rai (with 92% sample coverage), which went from two percentage points to just one point as the counting progressed and the picture became clearer.
The other element that emerges from an initial analysis of the vote is the success of the civic list that supports Bucci “Vince Liguria”, which collects 10% of preferences, driving the coalition and handing the victory to the centre-right candidate, while the civic “Orlando Presidente” stops at just over half: 5.1%, despite the excellent result of the Pd, the party of which Orlando has been a member of parliament for five legislatures and has been minister several times.
