Centre-left opposition parties must
be spurred by the results in regional elections in Abruzzo on
Sunday to continue to work together to create a solid
alternative to the centre-right, Democratic Party (Pd) Secretary
Elly Schlein said on Monday.
"Until a few weeks ago Abruzzo was given up for lost without
discussion," said Schlein, congratulating centre-right candidate
and incumbent governor Marco Marsilio of Premier Giorgia
Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) on his 53.5% victory.
"The outgoing FdI governor started with a 20-point lead in the
polls," she continued.
"Instead, by uniting our forces around a common vision, we got
back into the game and reduced that gap significantly, but still
not enough," added Schlein.
"This spurs us to continue to fight with even more determination
to build a solid alternative capable of competing with the
right-wing coalition," she concluded.
Centre-left candidate Luciano d'Amico, a university professor in
business economics, polled 46.5% in the regional election after
running with a broad centre-left coalition that included the
Five Star Movement (M5S) and PD, along the lines of the alliance
that saw the M5S's Alessandra Todde win a narrow victory in
Sardinia in regional elections at the end of February.
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