Referendum without quorum, 30% turnout. Ballots: centre-left wins in Taranto, centre-right mayor in Matera

The national turnout for the referendum on labour and citizenship was 30.6% (the foreign vote is still missing for the final overall figure, which will be under 30%). We are far from the 50% +1 quorum needed for the consultation to be valid. Four of the questions, promoted by the CGIL, concerned labour regulations. The fifth question was on citizenship, promoted by a committee formed by numerous associations and chaired by Riccardo Magi, Sonny Olumati and Deepika Salhan.

On the same days and at the same times, votes were also cast for the first round of local government elections in Sardinia (7 municipalities, including Nuoro) and for the runoff round of local government elections (13 municipalities, including Taranto and Matera) where no mayor was elected in the first round on 25 and 26 May. In Nuoro, the turnout was 61.9 per cent. In Matera it was 56.9 per cent (down from 65.2 per cent in the first round) and in Taranto 47 per cent (also down from 56.5 per cent in the first round).

Emiliano Fenu, M5s MP and candidate of the Campo Largo, is the new mayor of Nuoro. The Pentastelite exponent received a congratulatory phone call from his direct opponent, Giuseppe Luigi Cucca, head of centre-right civic lists, current leader of Idv in Sardinia, former senator and former regional secretary of the PD. According to the data gathered in the offices of the centre-left parties, Fenu is credited with around 60%, a percentage that would give him victory in the first round.

With the polls practically over in Taranto, the centre-left candidate Pietro Bitetti (who also had the external support of the M5S for the runoff) is ahead, with 54.6% over Francesco Tacente, at the head of a coalition of civic lists that has received the official support of the entire centre-right. Bitetti made it to the ballot after a first round that ended ahead (37.4%) of Tancente (26.1%)

After the arrival of the results from some of the city's most populous sections, celebrations broke out in the election committee of Antonio Nicoletti (centre-right), the new mayor of Matera. Nicoletti, with 51.5%, consolidated his lead over the centre-left candidate, Roberto Cifarelli. The latter, who did not have the support of the M5s at the ballot, was defeated despite having placed ahead of his rival Nicoletti (37%) in the first round (43.5%). After the ballot defeat, the secretary of the Basilicata PD, Giovanni Lettieri, resigned. The Dems presented themselves at the Matera administrative elections without a symbol, just as happened last year in Potenza, when Vincenzo Telesca (centre-left) won. 'I consider,' Lettieri said, 'functional to the relaunch of the party's activity, an assumption of responsibility for what happened and I can no longer postpone a step of mine.'>