ROME – Damiano Tommasi won the first leg. The “Serie A altar boy” goes to play for the seat of mayor of Verona in the ballot with Federico Sboarina (Fdi and Lega) strong in a first round in which he took about 40% of the votes, against 32.3% of the right-wing representative. (His) problem is that Flavio Tosi (Forza Italia and Italia Viva), already two times mayor, has stopped at 23.8% and that hoard of votes, in a historically right-wing city (sometimes very extreme) is easy that ends up in the pockets of his opponent.
THE OLYMPICS ARE NOT ENOUGH FOR THE MAYOR OF CORTINA
“If I win I promise to ride my bike to the top of the Stelvio”, he says. He throws it on competitive spirit, and on the other hand the elections are an endurance race. But Tommasi is just the well-known face of the usual troop of “sportsmen” who put himself to the test at the polls. To be understood in a broad sense, because sport remains an important fold among the administrative implications. In Cortina, for example, a reversal took place that will also have national consequences: the new mayor is Gianluca Lorenzi. With 1044 votes he beat the outgoing Gianpietro Ghedina, who stopped at 690 preferences. Ghedina (no relationship with the skier who flew split on the Streif of Kitzbuhel) was the mayor of the assignment of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics. In recent days he had carried the flag with the five circles in the Ampezzo capital. Evidently in Cortina the Olympic Games are not worth a re-election.
THE SHOOTER DE PELLEGRIN
In Belluno Oscar De Pellegrin becomes mayor at the first shot, candidate of the center-right coalition. “My wife called me and said: you know that if you win after midnight, that is an important date”. Thirty-eight years earlier, on the same day, Oscar De Pellegrin had had the accident that would change his life. As a paraplegic, De Pellegrin was one of the top athletes of the national team in archery and target shooting: 70 Italian titles, 11 national records and 4 world records, Paralympic team gold medal, Commander of the Republic, Coni “gold collar”, torchbearer of the 2006 Turin Olympic Flame, standard-bearer at the 2012 London Paralympics. won with a surgical shot: 111 more votes.
In Palermo – just in the days when Palermo celebrates the return to Serie B and a fuss broke out due to the desertion of dozens of seat presidents and tellers caused, it seems, precisely by the concomitant play-off with Padua – the former rosanero player Giancarlo Ferrara was a candidate for the presidency of the Fifth constituency, symbol of the “picciotti di Arcoleo”. In 1995 he signed one of the most “iconic” goals in the history of Palermo football: a header in the time that was almost out of time for the 1-1 against Cesena. Today, at the age of 46, the former striker is a candidate for the presidency of the fifth constituency of the Sicilian capital. In an interview with PalermoToday he said: “It is the first time that I am applying, I am doing it to help a friend like Fabrizio Ferrandelli who has important ideas for this adrift city “. Ferrandelli was the mayoral candidate of More Europe and Action. He didn’t make it: Roberto Lagalla won in Palermo. The counting of the Fifth constituency has not yet been completed.
OTHER CANDIDATE SPORTSMEN
In Monza among the candidates there is a champion of handbike and Paralympic swimming: Davyd Andryiesh, 19, born in Ukraine but as a child living in Villasanta. With the jersey of the sports association Silvia Tremolada she won the silver medal at the Italian Paralympic Swimming Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro, of the 150 medals. He supported the mayoral candidate Paolo Piffer and aspired to join the City Council, focusing on the theme of disability and architectural barriers. Dario Allevi of the center-right and the candidate of the center-left Paolo Pilotto will go to the ballot.
Finally, in Frosinone in the Action with Calenda list, for Mauro Vicano mayor, the former boxer Sven Paris also ended up, former Italian welterweight champion, with a participation in the 2000 Sydney Games (in light welterweight). He abandoned competitive boxing in 2017. Riccardo Mastrangeli (49.3%) and Domenico Marzi will go to Frosinone in the second round
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