Elections in Abruzzo, exit poll: Marsilio ahead of D'Amico

The call to vote

Given the importance attributed to the challenge, with the parade of the big names on both sides in the last week, the calls to vote were incessant, continuing even during the hours of electoral silence. With fiery chats. And tam tam among the citizens. On the centre-left side, the activism of the non-locals. With Abruzzo students who have relaunched offers on trains to return to their place of residence. The train, however, is not the only means of increasing participation.

The bus from Campania

A bus left from Naples with about fifty Neapolitans living in Abruzzo on board. Voting paper in hand. Accompanying the Campania group were the regional coordinator of Forza Italia Fulvio Martusciello and senator Francesco Silvestro. «There are many Neapolitans who live in the province of L'Aquila», explains Martusciello, «many friends who have asked us to go to the polls together. Thus the idea of making a bus was born. Let's vote together and win together."

Challengers to the vote

The two presidential candidates voted in their respective polling stations. Wearing a gray turtleneck and dark jacket, the outgoing president of the Abruzzo region arrived just before 12 at the elementary school in the Tricalle neighborhood of Chieti. After inserting the ballot into the ballot box, there was a brief exchange of words with a representative of the PD list who greeted him with a high five. Then he wished the presidents and scrutineers well in their work.

A few minutes later, in Pescara, his opponent Luciano D'Amico showed up with his staff at the polling station of the 'Illuminati school, a few steps from the seafront. Jacket and tie, and shaking hands with the citizens, who greeted him by calling him professor. Then, both at home. A few hundred meters away from each other.

In the final stages of the election campaign, Marsilio was sure he could announce his victory around half past one. D'Amico was convinced that we had to wait at least 4 to have a consolidated result. The latter is a sign of the trust placed in a battle until the last vote.

Silence violated

Meanwhile, confirming a fiery electoral campaign up to the moment of counting, comes the controversy over the violation of electoral silence. Marsilio's anger was unleashed by a broadcast hosted by Marco Travaglio on Saturday evening. According to the outgoing president, the director of Il Fatto held "a rally peppered with slander". Accusations that intersect with those of the Abruzzo senator of the 5 Star Movement Gabriella Di Girolamo. Who insists: it was Marsilio who "fueled the controversy to violate the silence". For the M5s, the two deputy prime ministers Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini would also have violated the silence. The leader of Forza Italia published a simple sentence on X: «Forza Abruzzo, Forza Italia! Good mark". The leader of the League publishes a collage of images of his electoral campaign in the Region and writes: «So many smiles, so much energy in Abruzzo!».

(Unioneonline)