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Rome: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set for her first regional election loss since winning power in 2022 after a centre-left candidate appeared to have won the vote for the president of Sardinia, partial results showed on Tuesday...
With almost all the votes counted, Alessandra Todde, a member of the left-leaning 5-Star Movement who was backed by the Democratic Party (PD), had 45.3% of the vote..
Despite the narrow margin and the count not being totally completed, pollsters and newspapers called the result for Todde, who celebrated victory alongside 5-Star leader and former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Elly Schlein, head of the largest opposition group, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD)...
The vote was held on Sunday, but counting only started on Monday morning and took an unusually long time, with regional authorities waiving a 12-hour deadline for the completion of the procedure...
Melonis bloc, including her Brothers of Italy party, the League and Forza Italia, won all four regional elections held in 2023 and until Sunday controlled 14 of Italys 20 regions..
