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Italy's 'reddest' town falls to civic list

Lamporecchio near Pistoia voted 75% PCI in 1980

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 10 - A small town near Pistoia dubbed the "reddest" in Italy when the Italian Communist Party (PCI) polled over 75% there in 1980 prompting a visit by PCI leader Enrico Berlinguer will for the first time not have a mayor put up by a leftwing party.
    Lamporecchio's new mayor Anna Trassi is also the town's first woman mayor.
    She beat outgoing leftwing mayor Alessio Torrigiani by 50% to 31.92%. (ANSA).
   

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