From Meloni's cherries to Elly Schlein's blunt pencil, the bigwigs at the polls. Bossi votes Forza Italia
Against rampant abstentionism, party number ones vote now, to set an example. A vote that is almost always immortalised on social media
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Against rampant abstentionism, the bigwigs vote now, to set an example. A vote that is almost always immortalised on social media. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni voted at the Vittorio Bachelet school polling station in Rome, besieged by photographers and journalists. Immortalised by cameras and cameramen as she inserted the fuchsia ballot into the ballot box, she recalled the electoral silence, but launched an appeal to vote because with these elections 'our next five years in Europe are decided'. In a video on Instagram she eats 'Variety Giorgia' cherries.
Elly Schlein's blunt pencil
Pd secretary Elly Schlein voted immediately after the polls opened in Bologna, at the polling station set up in the Ercolani school in Via Mura di Porta Galliera. She waited her turn in line and entered booth 2 of section 99 to cast her vote. Then a curious unscheduled event: after entering the booth, the Dem leader realised that the pencil she had been given to vote for was blunt and went out to have it changed by the scrutineers, with a smile. After her vote she waited in the corridor for her companion to vote as well, then walked away without making a statement.
Conte wishes good vote
The president of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte voted at the Liceo Ginnasio Statale Virgilio in the centre of Rome for the European Parliament elections. "Good vote to everyone," he said as he came out of the polling station. And she posted on social media her photo with the ballot paper in her hand, writing: 'I voted and you? Happy voting to all and sundry'.
Tajani votes in Fiuggi
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani voted in Fiuggi, at the polling station set up at the Istituto Comprensivo. Then the Forza Italia leader lingered with acquaintances and posed for a group photo with locals. 'Happy voting to all! For Italy!" he later wrote in a tweet with the photo at the polling station in a bordeaux T-shirt.
The tithing on Salvini's ballot
.Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini voted immediately after the polls opened at the polling station in Via Martinetti in Milan. And to those who, on leaving the polling station, asked if he had voted the tenth, in reference to General Vannacci's controversial advertisement, Salvini laughed: 'I put the tenth on the ballot paper'. Dressed in dark, breaking the electoral silence, Salvini declared that what is given to his League 'is a vote for peace'. 'Italians, by voting for us, can stop the winds of war,' he assures. He did not miss a jab at his government allies: 'I expect a very good result for the League, certainly superior to the political ones and superior to Forza Italia'.
