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In Lazio, the three main candidates for the presidency of the Lazio Region are preparing to close the electoral campaign, before the vote on 12 and 13 February. By now we are running out and the final sprint – between Francesco Rocca for the centre-right, Alessio D'Amato for the centre-left and Donatella Bianchi for the M5s – is frenetic, seasoned daily by confrontations, even from a distance, in which lunges, jabs and flames fly controversy. Ballot boxes open on Sunday 12 February from 7 to 23 and Monday 13 February from 7 to 15 to elect the new governor and 50 councilors. In the five electoral districts, Frosinone, Latina, Rieti, Viterbo and the metropolitan city of Rome, the electoral law does not provide for a runoff, but only for the first round and whoever gets even one more vote wins. 80 percent of the seats in the Regional Council are assigned using the proportional method, to competing constituency lists (present in each of the 5 regional provinces), with the application of a 20 percent majority premium for the governor-elect's lists . Separate voting is permitted, i.e. voting for a candidate for president and then for one of the other lists not connected to him, and gender alternation is envisaged, with the possibility of expressing up to two preferences, choosing between a candidate and a candidate from the same list.
Meanwhile, preparations are underway. In reality, the centre-right for Francesco Rocca already met last Sunday in support of his candidate in a major event in the central Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome. All the candidates, supporters, representatives of civil society and politics, as well as the regional and national leaders of the coalition, including the prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the minister of infrastructures and secretary of Lega Matteo and the president of Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi. A very last closing event of the electoral campaign for the weekend, not yet scheduled, cannot be excluded. The Rocca committee will follow the counting of the ballot papers at the Salone delle Fontane, in the Eur area in Rome. D'Amato, on the other hand, is playing the last cards in the stronghold of the left at Garbatella. Together with the candidates of the coalition, the regional leaders and the main parties who support him and a representation of civil society, the former governor Nicola Zingaretti and the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri will also be on stage. Appointment, therefore, in Piazza Sauli, Garbatella, at 17pm on Friday 10 February. The electoral count will be followed by the Committee in via Portonaccio, the headquarters of the Democratic Party. The choice of the M5s is different, preferring to end the electoral campaign for Donatella Bianchi in the suburbs and precisely at the Cinema Aquila in Pigneto. The counting of the ballot papers will be followed in the headquarters of the movement in via Campo Marzio in Rome.
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