With approximately 70% of the votes counted in its regional elections Sardiniathe Alessandra Tondecandidate of the center-left Democratic Party and Five Star Movement he leads with 45.6% against 45% of the candidate of the conservative alliance Paolo Trutsu.

The difference is small but, according to many analysts, the votes of the urban centers of Sardinia, which have not yet been counted to a large extent, may favor the candidate of the alliance of the “five stars” with the “democrats”. This is the first of a total of five regional elections, in which Italians will have to elect, by spring, an equal number of district heads.

The Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni he visited Sardinia on Friday, but without meeting farmers and breeders who wanted to present their claims.

A possible defeat of the candidate of the forces that make up the government in Rome (Brothers of Italy, Forza Italia and the League) could be attributed, to a large extent, to frictions and tensions of the conservative alliance which found it difficult to choose a common candidate for the region of Sardinia.