Municipal elections, Monfalcone confirms itself as stronghold of the League: flop of the Islamic list

Crushing victory for the centre-right in Monfalcone (Gorizia). Luca Fasan (candidate of the League supported by the entire centre-right) won with 70.9%. Diego Moretti (26.2%), leader of the Pd group in the Fvg Council and candidate of the Pd and three other lists, was distanced. Only 2.9% and 343 votes to Bou Konate, candidate of the Islamic Italia Plurale list, who did not elect any councillor. What was supposed to be the novelty of these administrative elections turned out to be a flop..

The mayoral candidate of the list (which counted 18 names) is Bou Konate, an engineer from Senegal who already has a political past in Monfalcone, where he was councillor for Public Works in 2001. Monfalcone is a Carroccio stronghold. The municipality has been led for the last decade by the Lega Nord member Anna Maria Cisint (now a member of the European Parliament in Strasbourg), who has closed down illegal mosques, banned women from bathing and removed benches from illegal immigrants. He commented on the election result: 'We send the Islamic list back to the sender, even if it opens up an important issue, that of Islamisation, which is now a reality and which I fight together with others because only in this way can we as a city and as a people have a future. In Monfalcone, the League is the first party with 31%. It is followed by the civic list Fasan mayor with 24%. Distant in the centre-right are FdI (9.7%) and Forza Italia (5.7%). In the centre-left, the Pd is at 10.7%.

Aboubakar Soumahoro, MP and national secretary of Italia Plurale, nevertheless spoke of a 'victory' of an unstoppable 'small light turned on'. But in reality, for a town that has one of the highest percentages of foreigners in Italy - and what's more, almost all of them migrants from Bangladesh and almost all of them working in the large Fincantieri industrial complex - one would have expected quite a different result. There are 10,000 foreign residents in Monfalcone, equal to 33% of the total population. And of these about half, about 5,000, are from Bangladesh, a country with an overwhelming Islamic majority.

The centre-right also won in Pordenone, where the municipal elections were called early for the election of mayor Alessandro Ciriani (Fratelli d'Italia) as MEP. The candidate Alessandro Basso, incumbent regional councillor of Fratelli d'Italia, supported by five area lists, won with 54% of the votes at two-thirds of the count. While the incumbent Pd regional councillor, Nicola Conficoni, supported by 5 area lists, stopped at 35.6%.