Meloni coalition wins Venice mayoral vote, defying polls
Youtrend said Venturini’s nearly 51% share made the runoff unnecessary as the centre-right outperformed polls that had favored the opposition.
- On Monday, centre-right candidate Simone Venturini won nearly 51% of the vote in Venice's mayoral election, securing victory for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing coalition and avoiding a runoff.
- Despite a decade of right-wing governance, opinion polls published this month had pointed to a centre-left lead in Venice, where controversy flared in recent weeks over Russia's presence at the Biennale Art Festival.
- Polling across more than 600 Italian towns and cities took place Monday, with centre-left candidate Vincenzo De Luca winning a fifth term as mayor of Salerno near the Amalfi Coast in Campania after serving 10 years as regional governor.
- Senior lawmaker Giovanni Donzelli said the opposition "turned up in Venice convinced they could push the narrative that Meloni was finished, that the centre-right was in crisis. Then Italians went to the polls and those expectations ran up against reality."
- The centre-right also prevailed in Reggio Calabria, reclaiming territory from the left since 2014, while independent former Mayor Federico Basile secured re-election in Messina, signaling a fragmented political landscape ahead of 2027 general elections.
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DECRYPTAGE - After the rejection by referendum of his reform of the justice system, Giorgia Meloni recorded an unexpected victory with the election of Simone Venturini, one year after the legislative elections.
The research institute has analyzed the electoral flows in Venice, among the main capitals that went to the vote. In base M5s the percentage of those who have chosen the candidate of center-right (alderman outgoing of the junta Brugnaro) has been of 50%: only 24% has chosen Martella. The remaining percentages are divided between abstaining and other candidates
In Italy, the results of the first round of municipal elections, organised in more than 700 municipalities across the country, are marked by the victory of the right and the far right in Venice. An important setback for the left center, which hoped to take over this strategic city and regional capital, while several polls were favorable to it.
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