Sardinians Continue Voting Until 10pm, Witness Slight Surge in Turnout at 12pm Compared to 2019

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I am start at 7 in the 377 municipalities of Sardinia, the voting operations for the election of the President of the Region and for the renewal of the XVII Regional Council. From 6.30 am today, after the preliminary operations, it will be possible to vote until 10 pm. The voters – divided into 1884 sections in the 8 constituencies (Cagliari, Medio Campidano, Carbonia – Iglesias, Oristano, Nuoro, Ogliastra, Sassari and Olbia-Tempio) – there are 1,447,761, of which 709,840 men and 737,921 women. Among the 1416 candidates, the 60 councilors who will make up the seventeenth legislature of the Regional Council of Sardinia will be chosen.

At 12 they voted, in the 1,884 sections, 266,052 voters they represent 18.4% of those entitled to vote.In the 2019 regional elections at the same time they voted: 243,658 out of 1,470,401 entitled to vote (16,57%). In the 2014 regional elections at the same time they voted: 214,661 voters out of 1,480,332 entitled to vote (14.50%). The electoral body, divided into the 377 municipalities of the island and the 1,884 electoral sections of the regional territory, is 1,447,753, of which 709,837 men and 737,916 women, according to official data released by the Region.

At 12 noon today, therefore, 1.8% more people voted in Sardinia compared to 2019. These are the percentages of voters, compared to 2019, in these cities: Nuoro +3.7% Medio Campidano +3, 3% Oristano +2,% Sassari +1.9% Olbia Tempio +1.6% Carbonia Iglesias +1.4% Ogliastra +1.3% Cagliari +1.0%.

I four candidates to the presidency of the Sardinia Region, they all voted in the morning, awaited in their respective polling stations by cameras and journalists. The first was Lucia Chessa (Sardigna R-esista list), who around 9am reached the seat of Austis, the municipality in the Nuoro area of which the teacher was mayor for 10 years.

In Nuoro he voted Alessandra Todde (Largo field of the centre-left), arrived around 10.15am, with her family, at polling station number 5 set up in the elementary schools in via Matteotti. The candidate then traveled to Cagliari where her electoral committee is based.

Shortly afterwards, around 10.30 Paolo Truzzo (centre-right) showed up in Cagliari at polling station 507 of the ‘Randaccio Tuveri Don Milani’ comprehensive institute, in via Venezia 2. Also Renato Soru (Sardinian Coalition) cast his vote in the capital city, accompanied by his wife, in the Buccari technical institute in Piazza dei Centomila.

“Long live the Sardinian people, which is not an experiment to understand if Conte and Schlein can be together”, said the leader of the League and deputy prime minister

“Today is a day of sunshine and democracy for Sardinia but not to evaluate tomorrow in the analyzes how well Conte and Schlein’s wide field works, who cares – he underlines referring to the vote for the regional elections in Sardinia – This is not what that Sardinia needs, but
needs infrastructure”. “By the summer there will be the definitive project to connect Nuoro to the national railway network – he announces – But the debate on the split vote or the third mandate seems to be of more interest”.