(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 10 - The turnout in Abruzzo for regional elections stood at 15.8% at midday on Sunday, up from 13.3% in the last regional polls in 2019.
The figure is calculated based on the turnout at 1,415 polling stations out of a total of 1,634.
In total 1,208,276 people living in the central Apennine region are called to vote for their new regional government in a poll that is seen as another important test for the right-centre majority coalition led by Premier Giorgia Meloni after its narrow defeat in regional elections in Sardinia last month and ahead of European parliament elections in June.
Polling started at 7 am and ends at 11 pm local time.
The race is between the incumbent centre-right governor Marco Marsilio and Luciano d'Amico, a university professor in business economics who is running with a broad centre-left coalition that includes the 5-Star Movement (M5S) and Democratic Party (PD), along the lines of the alliance that took the M5S's Alessandra Todde to victory in Sardinia at the end of February. (ANSA).