Bolzano in the center -right for the first time: Corrarati is the new mayor

By our correspondent
Bolzano – Claudio Corrarati with a sprint sprint becomes the first center -right mayor in the history of Bolzano. While the ballot travels to the final rush, the entrepreneur detaches the outgoing commissioner Juri Androllo by almost 2 points (50.8% to 49.2%).

Compared to the first round The gap has restricted but not so much to allow the center -left to keep the keys to the town hall. It is a historical step for the capital of South Tyrol Which has always been led by the Christian Democracy (First Republic) and the PD and the left forces, in cohabitation with the Südtiroler Volkspartei (the party of the German linguistic minority) because thus provides for the statute of autonomy.

In Merano, however, LA Svp with Katharina Zeller regains the Municipality who had passed in « Italian » hands with Dario by the doctor (center -right number) with an overwhelming victory (55 to 45%). In support of Senator’s daughter Julia Unterberger weighed the support of the Democratic Party. With the defeat of Dalla doctor, the Italian mayors in South Tyrol are reduced to two (Corrarati and Giorgia Mongillo in Bronzolo).

Reading the first partial data on the backlight, It can be grasped how in the secret of the urn the German electorate voted for the center -left candidate (even if the SVP compared to the past this time has not given an indication of voting) But the very low turnout could play a decisive role (almost 10 points less than in the first round: from 52.2 to 42.8%) which was recorded above all in the city center, where the German language community is majority. The indirect rescue was not enough because in real terms they weighed the other neighborhoods more.

In the bare corrarati it has always been in the head. After a quarter of an hour from the closure of the seats, the first one came that the candidate of the center -right forward of 20 percentage points. An impromptu, in itself not significant, but which however gave the sign that the entrepreneur led the race in front of Androllo. As the minutes passed, the advantage went thinning, but Corrarati never went under.

For the outgoing commissioner for social policies, exponent of the Democratic Party, the match was complicated from the beginning. Two weeks ago the 9 -point gap surprised the center -left headquarters that did not expect to end up so detached. But the crack with the 5 Star Movement and the K team accrued when choosing the possible successor of the mayor Renzo Caramaschi in the polls made himself heard.

In recent days, even without official appearance, declarations of individual candidates of the lists excluded for the benefit of Androllo have arrivedwhile for Corrarati the economic categories have been expressed above all. «We made a great recovery but it was not enough. I didn’t think about going up so much. It was a great challenge, too bad for the poor turnout. A mayor elected with a difference of a few hundred votes means that the city is half divided « , the first hot comment of Androllo.

Waiting to know the definitive data, the data is very much discussed of the turnout at 42.8 percent (ten points less than in the first round). In some neighborhoods they voted for three out of ten voters. And the election campaign was lived in the name of the low profile, with the two challengers who batted themselves with great fair play. But in the end a competition under tone came out that rewarded the desire for change.

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