Chaos at the polling stations in Palermo where people vote not only for the referendum on justice but also for the renewal of the elected bodies.
There are about fifty constituencies where the presidents were missing this morning to install the polling station , with the tellers waiting.
"We worked all night to find presidents. Currently about 50 seats are not yet open but we are notifying as many appointments," Antonio Le Donne, general secretary of the Palermo municipality told Ansa.
As established by a provision of the Interior Ministry , the seats not set up for the resignation of presidents - and which have not been replaced - have been merged with the sections already operating where voting is in progress. "Soon the voting operations will be regular in all 600 city sections", the ministry said, specifying that the election times cannot be changed except with a law.
THE FORFAIT - The maxi forfait was announced since on Friday the municipality of Palermo had appealed to the professional associations of lawyers and chartered accountants to find professionals to be employed as presidents : all mobilized starting from the prefecture, but last-minute adhesions did not were sufficient to fill in time the void that has been created.
The controversy is inevitable, with several candidates (but also the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini) who have asked for the intervention of the judicial authorities , to which the municipal administration has already sent the documents.
Tonight, among other things, at the "Renzo Barbera" stadium the Palermo football team will play the final of Play off Serie C with Padova for promotion to B and a full house is expected with over 34 thousand spectators. Many fans would have renounced their nomination as scrutineer or seat president in order not to miss the opportunity to attend the match and celebrate the promotion. For this reason it was thought of a postponement of the match, but the Prefecture had decided to confirm the date of the sporting event.
IN NAPLES - In the Neapolitan area, on the other hand, a person was denounced for electoral corruption by the carabinieri of Sant'Antimo . The military received an anonymous report and carried out a search of the home of a 45-year-old with a clean record, finding three electoral cards in the name of other people.
The ballots were seized.
(Unioneonline / D)