Mattarella says work to get people to vote again

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 20 - Institutions must work to get people voting again, President Sergio Mattarella said after turnout was sharply down in regional elections in Emilia-Romagna and Umbria on Sunday and Monday.
    They are the latest in a string of local and national polls at which turnout has dropped.
    "Freedom and pluralism as vectors of development of the new Italy. An Italy in which participation in elections - after the era of podestà appointed by the regime - made citizens effective protagonists. For this reason too, we must work, culturally and politically, to get voter turnout to rise again," Mattarella told the assembly of Italian municpalities (ANCI) in Turin.
    (ANSA).