Monfalcone’s All-Muslim List Shakes Up Local Elections

Overwhelming victory for Luca Fasan with 70.9%. Only 343 votes (2.9%) for the mayoral candidate of the Islamic 'Plural Italy' list, which was presented as the news of this election round. The centre-right is also confirmed in Pordenone

Luca Fasan is the new first citizen. Italy plural of Bou Konate, a party of all-Muslim women and men, gets 339 votes

The three mayoral candidates are Luca Fasan for the center-right, Diego Moretti for the left and Bou Konate for the 'Plural Italy' list

“We want to win,” says the leaders. But other immigrants: they don't represent us. Today's results

The candidate of an Islamic list is third in the municipal elections of Monfalcone, the city with the highest percentage of foreigners in the country

Monfalcone’s All-Muslim List Shakes Up Local Elections

Monfalcone Local Elections See First All-Muslim Candidate List in Italy In an unprecedented development for Italian politics, a group of naturalized citizens, mostly of Muslim faith, has presented its own independent list in the upcoming local elections in Monfalcone, a town in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The list, named Italia Plurale (Plural Italy), is led by Bou Konate, a Senegalese-born engineer and former city councillor. A Town of Workers and I…