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The 2019 Umbrian regional election took place on 27 October 2019. [2] The election was for all 20 members of the Legislative Assembly of Umbria, as well as for the President of the Region, who is also a member of the Assembly.
The candidate who obtains a plurality of votes on a regional level is elected President of Umbria and the winning coalition receives 60% of the seats in the Legislative Assembly, ie 12 seats, excluding the seat reserved to the President. All other candidates for President who have not been elected but are linked to lists or coalitions that have elected at least one councillor are automatically elected to the Legislative Assembly.
The allocation of seats by coalitions and lists takes place on a proportional basis using a largest remainder method with open lists, with a 2.5% threshold for all lists and with a maximum limit of 10 seats obtainable for a single list.
Each candidate for President cannot spend more than €100,000, each candidate for regional councillor cannot spend more than €25,000 and each list cannot spend more than €1 multiplied by the number of inhabitants of the Region. [3]
In April 2019 the regional secretary of the Democratic Party Gianpiero Bocci and the regional health councillor Luca Barberini, together with Emilio Duca and Maurizio Valorosi, general manager and administrative director of the Perugia hospital, were arrested following an investigation into recruitment competitions in 2018 when Bocci was undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior. They were committed to stand trial on charges of abuse of office, disclosure of official secrecy, aiding and false ideology and material, for having communicated to some recommended candidates the questions that would have been present in the recruitment competitions. Catiuscia Marini, President of the Umbria Region, was committed to stand trial on charges of false ideology and material, abuse of office and disclosure of official secrets. A total of 35 people were investigated. [4] [5] [6]
Both Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio demanded the resignation of the President and requested an early election, organizing rallies to Perugia right after the arrests, [7] [8] while the new secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, said that the prosecutors must ascertain responsibilities for the crime committed by suspects. [9] Later on, Carlo Calenda, member of the Democratic Party, requested her resignation, while the secretary Zingaretti said she "must do what is best for Umbria", viewed by the newspapers as an invite to resign. [10] President Catiuscia Marini initially announced she would resign, [11] but a month later she voted a motion in the Legislative Assembly that asked her not to resign, causing much controversy in the party, and eventually, she officially resigned, leaving the post to her deputy president Fabio Paparelli. [12] [13] [14]
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The Democratic Party, following the scandal in the Region, decided they wanted to support an independent candidate. Among the civic lists with which they initially collaborated to draft the program, there were the Movement of the ideas and the act, promoted by the president of the Alliance of the Italian Cooperatives Umbria Andrea Fora and the professor of the University of Perugia Luca Ferrucci, Mario Stirati, mayor of Gubbio, and finally Umbria of the Territories of Stefania Proietti, mayor of Assisi and the councillor of Todi Floriano Pizzichini. [15] [16] [17] Andrea Fora finally decided to formalize his availability as a candidate for president for the centre-left coalition, [18] supported by cardinal Bassetti, [19] the Democratic Party and other minor lists like DemoS, [20] [21] creating some discontent on the other lists for his self candidature, choosing to run as a brand new coalition called Civic Green and Social Umbria, joined by Umbria of the Territories, the Italian Socialist Party, the Movement of the ideas and the act, Green Europe and The Other Umbria, a list promoted by Communist Refoundation and Italian Left. [22] [23] [24] [25] Possible candidates for the Presidency from the alternative coalition were Luciano Bacchetta, president of the Province of Terni, Marco Sciorini, coordinator of Terni of Umbria of the Territories, and Floriano Pizzichini. [26] [27]
Like what happened at the last regional elections in Piedmont, the centre-right for months did not find an agreement on the candidate President. Matteo Salvini, for the League, immediately after the health scandal, proposed for the presidency Donatella Tesei, senator of the League and former mayor of Montefalco, [28] [29] also supported by the new party Cambiamo! by Giovanni Toti, [30] while Fratelli d'Italia insisted on the name of Marco Squarta, group leader of the party at the regional council of Umbria. [31] A third candidacy, Andrea Romiti, mayor of Perugia, was put forward by the former assessor of Perugia Francesco Calabrese, promoting the list Project Umbria, [32] but was immediately rejected by the three parties, specifying that there would be no more than four lists in support of the candidate President. [33] [34] In early September, both Forza Italia and FdI supported Tesei's candidacy, but both parties wanted a deputy president of their own (Marco Squarta for FdI, Roberto Morroni for FI). [35] Another problem was FI's veto to the list of Cambiamo into the coalition, but Matteo Salvini asked for the centre-right unity, leaving the decision to Tesei. [36] [37]
The Five Star Movement didn't hold the online primaries for the election of the presidential candidate. In July, the former candidate for President of the Umbria Region at the previous elections and outgoing regional councillor for Umbria, Andrea Liberati, announced that he will not stand as presidential candidate for the M5S. [38] The candidates for the presidency of the Umbria region for the M5S were the former MEP Laura Agea, from Città di Castello, the doctor Gino Di Manici Proietti, candidate in the political elections in 2018 in the single-member constituency of Umbria - 02 and the outgoing regional councillor Maria Grazia Carbonari. The latter officially announced his availability for the office. [39] Finally, the online primaries took place on 19 September, but the members voted only for the candidates in the list and not for the candidates for the presidency. [40]
In the days of the formation of the new government between PD and M5S, both the PD commissioner in Umbria Walter Verini and the independent candidate for the centre-left Andrea Fora showed interest in an electoral alliance between PD and M5S in the regional elections in Umbria, [41] [42] but some umbrian members of the Chamber of the Deputies for the M5S countered that an electoral alliance between PD and M5S would be "premature". [43] Finally, after the new Conte cabinet, Dario Franceschini and the PD secretary Nicola Zingaretti proposed an alliance to the M5S but Luigi Di Maio initially refused, [44] but finally he proposed a "civic pact" for Umbria, choosing an independent president as a candidate and independent regional assessors as well. [45] The proposal was welcome by both the coalition led by the Democratic Party [46] and the coalition of the civic left. [47] [48] The possible candidates were the entrepreneur and stylist Brunello Cucinelli, who refused, [49] and the CEO of Novamont, Catia Bastioli. [50] The Five Star Movement meanwhile called for another vote on 20 September on their online platform to decide whether to take part of the "civic pact" proposed by Di Maio itself. [51]
Among the other candidates, Claudio Ricci, former candidate for president of the centre-right in the regional election of 2015 and outgoing regional councillor for Umbria, announced his candidacy as an independent candidate with three civic lists, [52] while the Communist Party announced the candidacy of the former member of the CGIL trade union Rossano Rubicondi, [53] Power to the People announced they would run with their own presidential candidate, Emiliano Camuzzi, a trade unionist, [54] and finally the former general Antonio Pappalardo declared he will run for the Orange Vests, inspired by the Yellow vests movement in France. [55]
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-left–M5S | Democratic Party (PD) | 35.8 | 11 | Vincenzo Bianconi | |||
| Five Star Movement (M5S) | 14.6 | 1 | |||||
| Green Civic Left (incl. LS, Art.1) | — | — | |||||
| Green Europe (EV) | — | — | |||||
| Bianconi for Umbria (incl. DemoS, PSI) | — | — | |||||
| Centre-right coalition | League (Lega) | 14.0 | 2 | Donatella Tesei | |||
| Forza Italia (FI) | 8.5 | 1 | |||||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | 6.2 | 1 | |||||
| Civic Umbria (incl. NPSI) | — | — | |||||
| Tesei for Umbria (incl. IdeA) | — | — | |||||
| Ricci for President | Ricci for President | 4.5 | 1 | Claudio Ricci | |||
| Civic Italy | — | — | |||||
| Umbria Proposal | — | — | |||||
| Camuzzi for President | Power to the People (PaP) | — | — | Emiliano Camuzzi | |||
| Italian Communist Party (PCI) | — | — | |||||
| Communist Party (PC) | — | — | Rossano Rubicondi | ||||
| Reconquer Italy (RI) | — | — | Martina Carletti | ||||
| Orange Vests | — | — | Antonio Pappalardo | ||||
| Party of Good Manners (PBM) | — | — | Giuseppe Cirillo | ||||
Exit poll
| Date | Polling firm | Sample size | Bianconi | Tesei | Ricci | Camuzzi | Rubicondi | Others | Undecided | Lead |
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| 27 Oct 2019 | Consorzio Opinio | – | 35.5–39.5 | 56.5–60.5 | 1.5–3.5 | — | — | 1.5 | — | 21.0 |
| 10 Oct 2019 | Noto | – | 41.0 | 49.0 | 6.5 | — | — | 3.5 | 29.0 | 8.0 |
| 4–8 Oct 2019 | Ixè | 1,000 | 45.0 | 44.5 | 6.5 | — | — | 4.0 | 34.0 | 0.5 |
| 1–7 Oct 2019 | SWG | 1,000 | 43.0 | 52.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | – | 8.0 |
| 25–27 Sep 2019 | Quorum–YouTrend | 1,000 | 43.1 | 47.2 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 1.9 | – | 14.8 | 4.1 |
| Date | Polling firm | Sample size | Centre-left – M5S | Centre-right | Ricci | PC | Camuzzi | Others | Lead | |||||
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| PD | M5S | Others | Lega | FI | FdI | Others | ||||||||
| 1–7 Oct 2019 | SWG | 1,000 | 22.5 | 14.0 | 5.5 | 38.5 | 4.5 | 6.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 16.0 |
| 25–27 Sep 2019 | Quorum–YouTrend | 1,000 | 30.2 | 10.0 | 2.9 | 34.4 | 3.8 | 6.7 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 4.2 |
| 16 Sep 2019 | Piepoli | – | 26.0 | 19.0 | – | 34.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 1.5 | — | — | — | 7.5 | 8.0 |
| 23 Nov 2015 | Election results | – | 35.8 | 14.6 | 7.5 | 14.0 | 8.5 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 4.5 | – | – | 3.6 | 21.2 |
Donatella Tesei, backed by the centre-right coalition composed of Salvini's League, far-right Brothers of Italy and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, was elected governor with 57.6% of the vote. The candidate for the coalition composed of the centre-left (led by the Democratic Party) and the Five Star Movement lost to the centre-right by more than 20 percent points. Umbria marks the eighth straight victory for the centre-right in regional ballots since the general election of March 2018. [56]
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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| Donatella Tesei | 255,158 | 57.55 | 1 | League | 154,413 | 36.95 | 8 | |||
| Brothers of Italy | 43,443 | 10.40 | 2 | |||||||
| Forza Italia | 22,991 | 5.50 | 1 | |||||||
| Tesei for Umbria | 16,424 | 3.93 | 1 | |||||||
| Civic Umbria | 8,608 | 2.06 | – | |||||||
| Total | 245,879 | 58.84 | 12 | |||||||
| Vincenzo Bianconi | 166,179 | 37.48 | 1 | Democratic Party | 93,296 | 22.33 | 5 | |||
| Five Star Movement | 30,953 | 7.41 | 1 | |||||||
| Bianconi for President | 16,833 | 4.03 | 1 | |||||||
| Green Civic Left | 6,727 | 1.61 | – | |||||||
| Green Europe | 5,975 | 1.43 | – | |||||||
| Total | 153,784 | 36.80 | 7 | |||||||
| Claudio Ricci | 11,718 | 2.64 | – | Ricci for President | 5,261 | 1.26 | – | |||
| Civic Italy | 2,175 | 0.52 | – | |||||||
| Umbria Proposal | 1,475 | 0.35 | – | |||||||
| Total | 8,911 | 2.13 | – | |||||||
| Rossano Rubicondi | 4,484 | 1.01 | – | Communist Party | 4,108 | 0.98 | – | |||
| Emiliano Camuzzi | 3,846 | 0.87 | – | Italian Communist Party | 2,098 | 0.50 | – | |||
| Power to the People | 1,345 | 0.32 | – | |||||||
| Total | 3,443 | 0.82 | – | |||||||
| Martina Carletti | 910 | 0.21 | – | Reconquer Italy | 808 | 0.19 | – | |||
| Antonio Pappalardo | 587 | 0.13 | – | Orange Vests | 524 | 0.13 | – | |||
| Giuseppe Cirillo | 461 | 0.10 | – | Party of Good Manners | 420 | 0.10 | – | |||
| Blank and invalid votes | 11,841 | 2.60 | – | - | - | - | ||||
| Total candidates | 443,343 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 417,877 | 100.00 | 19 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 703,595 | 64.69 | – | - | - | - | ||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results | ||||||||||
| Region | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | |
| Umbria | 19.55% | 52.78% | 64.69% |
| Province | Time | ||
| 12:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | |
| Perugia | 19.68% | 53.08% | 65.02% |
| Terni | 19.19% | 51.95% | 63.74% |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Turnout | |||
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