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%.
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