Health Undersecretary Maurizio
Fugatti of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League party was elected
governor of Trentino Monday with 46.74% of Sunday's vote in the
northern Italian region.
Fugatti was backed by a nine-party coalition including the
League, Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right opposition Forza Italia
(FI) party, the rightist opposition Brothers of Italy (FdI), the
Centrist Union (UdC), local tickets Progetto Trentino, Agire per
il Trentino, Civica Trentino, and Fassa, and the AP centrists.
The election ends Trentino's 20 years of monopoly rule by
centre-left autonomist coalitions.
The League party came top in the Trentino provincial
elections with 27.4% of the vote followed by the centre-left
opposition Democratic Party (PD) with 13.93%, the regionalist
PATT with 12.59% and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S), the League's ruling partner in Rome, with 7.23%.
This contrasted with the last such vote in 2013 when the PD
was top with 22%, followed by PATT with 17.55%, the League at
just over 6% and the M5S below 6%.
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