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Administrative: Roberto Gualtieri, who is the new mayor of Rome

Center left clearly ahead of Rome and Turin, head to head between the candidates in Trieste. According to the exit polls of the Consorzio Optimo per Rai in the capital Roberto Gualtieri is between 59 and 63%, Enrico Michetti of the Center right is between 37 and 41%. TO Torino the first exit polls see Stefano Lo Russo of the center-left in front of him between 56 and 60%, Paolo Damilano of the center-right is between 40 and 44%. They are paired with Trieste Francesco Russo, for the center-left, and Roberto Dipiazza, outgoing mayor of the center-right.

We voted to choose the mayor of 65 Municipalities, including 10 provincial capitals: Rome, Turin, Trieste, Varese (center-left ahead), Savona, Latina, Benevento (towards confirmation Clemente Mastella), Caserta, Isernia and Cosenza. About 5 million voters were involved, but far fewer went to vote in this ballot. The turnout, according to the first data, is 48.95%.

For Turin and Rome, the first data were enough to make the success of the Left clear as it has already happened in Milan, Naples and Bologna. Here’s who the new mayors are.

ROBERTO GUALTIERI
The new mayor of Rome was minister of the economy in the Conte government. Roberto Gualtieri, born in 1966, from Rome. he does not only have politics in his past: classical high school and a degree in literature, he is associate professor of contemporary history at La Sapienza University and is deputy director of the Istituto Gramsci Foundation. He has written about Italian and international history of the twentieth century and of the process of European integration. A resume that has given him fame for nerd. He himself defined himself this way.

He was enrolled in the Italian Communist Youth Federation and then in the Italian Communist Party. It was then always within the various forms that i took democrats to the left. He is one of the editors of the PD manifesto. Before being appointed minister, he was MEP since 2009 and president of the Commission for Economic and Monetary Affairs.

He is married and has a son. He lives in Monteverde. In his program for the electoral campaign there is “the city of 15 minutes»: Proximity services that can be reached quickly in any part of the city. His passion, in addition to politics and study, is the classical guitar.

“I thank all the personalities who have expressed their support, the whole committee, all the volunteers,” said Gualtieri, also thanking Carlo Calenda for the vote and for the ideas. «I will work with all my efforts to put the program into practice, to build a participatory dimension of the life of the city, a European capital. Now it’s time for a big deal for city development. I ask everyone to participate in a great season of relaunching Rome ».

STEFANO LO RUSSO
The future mayor of Turin is also a man of studies, but of science. He is 45 years old, was born and raised in Turin, in the Santa Rita neighborhood where he still lives. Teaches Geology at the Polytechnic and devoted much of his professional and political life to the protection of the environment. He is a great sports fan, football above all. He also served as a referee until Serie D.

«I was trained in volunteering, alongside Fr Aldo Rabino, a Salesian and chaplain of Turin, committing myself to the Mato Grosso Operation in Latin America. The other passion, that for politics and commitment to my community, was undoubtedly born in those years ». At the age of thirty he was elected in the municipality on the Ulivo list, then re-elected in 2011 on the PD list. In 2016 it was the most voted in Town Council.

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