Marco Marsilio, a Senator
for the rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, is the new
governor of Abruzzo.
The centre-right candidate won 299,949 votes in the central
region - 48.03% of the papers counted at 1,633 ballot sections.
The centre-left's Giovanni Legnini was second with 31.28%
followed by Sara Marcozzi of the 5-Star Movement (M5S) with
20.20%.
Stefano Flajani, the candidate of the far-right CasaPound
party, got 0.47%.
The election was seen as an important test ahead of May's
European elections.
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's League
party ran with its traditional allies in the centre right,
including ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) party
and FdI, while its coalition partners in central government, the
M5S, ran alone.
The League was the individual party that won most votes,
getting over 27%.
FI got around 9% while FdI got over 6%.
Within the centre-left, the PD, which suffered its worst-ever
showing in last year's general election, got 11.13%, with the
Legnini Presidente list winning 5.56%.
The M5S's vote was halved with respect to the 40% it won in
the region in last year's general election.
The turnout was 53.12%, compared to 61.55% in the 2014
regional elections.
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