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The centre-right candidate Adriano Galliani won the elections held on 22 and 23 October in Monza for the Senate seat left vacant by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who died on 12 June. According to the final results, Galliani clearly beat his main opponent, Marco Cappato, supported by the centre-left. The right-wing coalition received 51.5 percent of the votes and the center-left 39.5 percent. Forza Italia secretary Antonio Tajani announced the victory of Galliani and Cappato he congratulated with the opponent on X (Twitter).
A victory with a special flavor, however @forza_italiafor the center-right and for ours #AdrianoGalliani. A thought for Silvio Berlusconi, who will be celebrating up there. Proud of our new senator. Congratulations and good work, Adriano! #Monza #Brianza pic.twitter.com/QRQVbMXRPs
— Antonio Tajani (@Antonio_Tajani) October 23, 2023
As often happens in by-elections, turnout was particularly low: only 19.2 percent of eligible voters took part. In the last elections, the 2022 parliamentary ones, the turnout was 71 percent.
Galliani’s victory was widely expected: in the last political elections on 25 September 2022 Silvio Berlusconi, supported by Forza Italia, Lega, Fratelli d’Italia and Noi Moderati, won with 50.3 percent of the votes, against 27, 1 percent of Federica Perelli, of the Democratic Party, a result that Galliani improved slightly. Galliani is originally from Monza, and throughout his career as a sports manager and entrepreneur he has always been particularly attached to the territory. Your candidacy had been proposed in July by Tajani in agreement with the Berlusconi family.
Galliani is 79 years old, he was CEO of Milan for a long time and a senator with Forza Italia between 2018 and 2022. Since 2018 he has been CEO of the Monza football team. He was very close to Berlusconi, who was president of Milan between 1986 and 2004 and in 2018 bought Monza, which at the time played in Serie C and is now in Serie A. In the by-elections Galliani was supported by Fratelli d’Italia , Lega, Forza Italia and Noi Moderati. After the announcement of the election, Galliani wanted to dedicate the victory to Berlusconi, who he indicated as a “master of life”.
His main opponent was Marco Cappato, politician and treasurer of the Luca Coscioni association, supported by a broad centre-left coalition which included the Democratic Party, the 5 Star Movement, the Greens and the Italian Left. Cappato, 52, was president of the Italian Radicals between 2015 and 2016 and a European parliamentarian for over eight years between 1999 and 2009. Cappato was born in Milan but grew up in Vedano al Lambro, in the province of Monza.
In recent years he has become well known above all for his activities in favor of the legalization of assisted suicide: in 2017 he accompanied Fabio Antoniani, known as DJ Fabo, to a Swiss clinic to allow him to access the procedure. Once he returned to Italy he was accused of aiding suicide, but was then acquitted in 2019. His legal case led the Constitutional Court to decriminalize assisted suicide, albeit with some conditions and incompletely, given that parliament never did a law on the matter despite the many warnings from the Court. Over the years, Cappato has helped other people access the procedure abroad and has been accused several times, without ever being convicted.
There were also six other candidates in the elections including Cateno De Luca, mayor of Taormina in the province of Messina and exponent of the South with North movement: they all received between one and two percent of the votes.
2023-10-23 15:43:02
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