The leaders of Italy's ruling
righting alliance, Premier Giorgia Meloni of the rightwing
Borthers of Italy (FdI) party, Deputy Premier and Foreign
Minister Antonio Tajani of the centre-right post Berlusconi
Forza Italia (FI) party, and Deputy Premier and Transport
Minister Matteo Salvini of the rightwing League party, on
Tuesday said they had been defeated in Sardinian regional
elections and would reflect on the mistakes they made in their
campaign.
"The data available on the vote in Sardinia deliver a victory by
less than 3 thousand votes to the centre-left candidate
Alessandra Todde over the centre-right candidate Paolo Truzzu",
said in a joint note from the three party leaders.
Even if the national coalition has not fallen, they said, it is
"a defeat on which we will reason together to assess the
possible errors committed.
"We will continue to work learning from our defeats as from our
victories'," they said after the fist regional reversal after
five straight wins.
They went on to say that the centre-right vote in Sardinia was
not down.
"We regret the fact that the excellent result of the
centre-right coalition lists, which came close to 50% of the
votes, did not also translate into a victory for the
gubernatorial candidate", they said.
"From these elections, therefore," they emphasised, "a drop in
support for the centre right does not emerge in Sardinia."
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