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Italian Regional Elections Set To Deliver Rebuke To PD

by Tom Lake

Seven Italian regions are due to hold local elections on September 20-21 in what is likely to prove a significant test of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD)'s popular appeal. The PD governs at the national level alongside the leftist anti-establishment Five-Star Movement (M5S) and is currently leads the provincial government in four of the seven regions holding elections.

The most interesting contest are in Tuscany, Marche, and Apulia, where incumbent PD administrations, in coalition with other centre-left and leftist parties, face stiff challenges from the centre-right candidate. In Marche, the centre-left candidate Maurizio Mangialardi trails centre-right candidate Francesco Acquaroli by a wide margin in opinion polls, with a PD loss now widely expected in the region. Historically this would have been almost unthinkable, with the Marches, alongside Emilia-Romagna, Umbria, and Tuscany forming the 'red belt' of regional strongholds for socialist parties.

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