Elections, challenge to the last vote. The courts verify the records

The verification of the minutes of the polling stations begins in the courts of Sardinia, a decisive step to dispel doubts about the final result of the votes on Sunday 25 February.

Alessandra Todde, governor in pectore, says she is "absolutely calm, the data from our list representatives reassures us", with reference to the gap from Paolo Truzzu which would have been reduced to around 1,400 votes.

And if the Court of Appeal of Cagliari has not yet proclaimed her president of the Region, it is only a matter of time according to the staff of the Campo Largo leader, who for days has been dismissing and denying the hypothesis of a sensational turnaround.

Today the head-to-head is destined to start again. Work will resume in the district electoral offices, set up in the courts of the island. And having closed the chapter on the missing seats, we will focus on the minutes. The regularity of documents and operations carried out by the polling stations will be checked. The sums of the votes will be x-rayed. Can the result still change? In the centre-right they point out that in 2019, after the review of the minutes, Massimo Zedda obtained several more preferences than those recorded at the end of the ballots. And in fact if you compare the report of the central office (the Court of Appeal of Cagliari) which proclaimed Christian Solinas the winner with the data still published today on the Region's website, you can see a difference of 1,217 votes. In short: everything is still possible.

Then there is the chapter of the contested ballots. In Cagliari, for example, the votes contested – and recorded – would be just 57. In Quartu 11. If the same proportions were replicated throughout the island, there would be around a thousand doubtful cases.

Michele Ruffi