Article updated at 19.52 – The gap in Campania between Vincenzo De Luca and his main challenger, Stefano Caldoro, is clear. The outgoing governor is given 64.9% from the third screening of the Opinio Italia Consortium for Rai, while the center-right candidate is indicated at 20.2%. The sample is equal to 10% of the electorate.
The final turnout for the regional elections in Campania was 55.53%. This was announced by the Ministry of the Interior. In the last Campania elections the turnout was 51.93%
“The general element is given by the avalanche of presidents in office during Covid, who were seen as a reference point by the citizens. It is a national element, which had the same effect in Campania, accompanied by a war machine from the lists of the center left, which have had a very strong statement “. These are the first words of the center-right candidate for the presidency of the Campania Region, Stefano Caldoro, upon his arrival at the electoral committee in Naples.
Waiting for him only journalists and staff members, while for the whole afternoon there were no representatives of the center-right parties that support him. To comply with the anti-Covid rules, it was decided to hold the press conference outside, in front of the entrance to the committee, where a station was set up for journalists.
“Congratulations and good work to Vincenzo De Luca. We collaborated on an institutional level, we supported him on a political level. A great victory for him too, bravo.” So the leader of Italy alive Matteo Renzi, on Facebook.
A maxi screen and a stage are already under construction in the square of the Naples Maritime Station, where De Luca has installed his electoral committee. On the first floor of the port building, in the rooms reserved for the press, monitors are already connected to follow the first exit polls, while in the rooms reserved for the president’s staff, there is already deputy Fulvio Bonavitacola, who is waiting for the first reliable data from bare, before commenting on the outcome that now seems to take for granted the reconfirmation of the outgoing president.
Even five years ago, when the challenger was De Luca himself, the electoral committee for the long night was set up in the Maritime station of Naples, but the protagonist’s first comments arrived only the following morning. The outcome of the challenge launched to the outgoing center-right governor Stefano Caldoro remained uncertain for many hours. De Luca today, as then, awaits the definition of the results in Salerno, in his city, before coming to Naples to speak.
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