Candidates go to the polls in Italy
MADRID, 25 (EUROPA PRESS)
The leader of the Italian League, Matteo Salvini, encouraged the population to go to the polls this Sunday and defended that his party aspires to be one of the parliamentary forces “on the podium” for the formation of a new government.
“I count on the League to be the parliamentary force on the podium, first, second or third at the most. From tomorrow there will be no more talk and we will pass from commitments to facts. We have clear ideas”, he predicted after having deposited his vote in a polling station in Milan, according to the AndKronos news agency.
Salvini acknowledged that they will be “complicated months” for Italy in the face of the energy and economic crisis that the whole of Europe is suffering, while specifying that “the more you vote, the stronger” the country will be, while with these elections “they will be legitimized. policies “.
The leader of the Democratic Party (PD), Enrico Letta, also exercised his constitutional right to vote at the polling station in Rome around nine in the morning, where he shook hands with some of his supporters, the newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’.
Other politicians who deposited their ballots were the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, in Palermo, as well as the leader of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, who went to a polling station in Rome.
Similarly, the leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, voted in Florence in the company of his wife Agnese Landini, after which he posted a message on his official Twitter profile encouraging the population to go to the polls.
“We voted. You too, whatever your political opinion. Democracy feeds on everyone’s commitment. Long live the Republic, long live Italy. 25 September”, said Renzi, publishing a photograph in which he appears expressing his vote.
Carlo Calenda from Acción also voted in a polling station near the Trevi Fountain. “Vote, vote freely, without conditions and without fear. Italy is always stronger than those who want it weak,” he said on his Twitter profile.
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The leader of the Italian Action has referred to the historical figure of Pericles, assuring that it is necessary to vote “consciously”. “‘A citizen who does not take care of the state is not harmless, but useless,'” said the Italian politician, quoting Pericles.
At his polling station in Milan, the former Italian prime minister and president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, also went to vote. He said it was “the first time” that he has seen lines to vote.
“I have never seen files in other years,” he said while waiting to enter the building, accompanied by his partner Marta Fascina. “All in a row? How good,” he added, according to the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’.
Berlusconi was also sure that his training will exceed 10 percent of the vote and noted that he aspires to become prime minister: “I will try to be the head of the next government.” “Of all these leaders, there is none who have ever worked. I really don’t know who to vote for. I’m the only one left,” he said.
The last to go to vote, before the polls close at eleven in the evening, will be the far right Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy, who has decided to postpone the delivery of her vote due to the multitude of photographers and reporters in front of your polling station.
In these political elections, in which the right-wing bloc, led by Meloni, is emerging as the favorite, almost 50 million people will have to go to the polls, with more than four million Italians abroad.
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