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.
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