Regionals, Marche first test in September. All national leaders in the field
Elly Schlein (Pd), Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni (Avs) in the region for the challenger Matteo Ricci. Matteo Salvini (Lega) and Antonio De Poli (Udc), for the outgoing Francesco Acquaroli. Monday is Meloni's turn
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The autumn round of regional elections begins with Marche, on the ballot on 28 and 29 September. It will also be the first useful political test of the electorate's mood. On the ground, the leaders have already taken the field: Elly Schlein (Pd), Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni (Avs), for the challenger Matteo Ricci, Matteo Salvini (Lega) and Antonio De Poli (Udc), for the outgoing Francesco Acquaroli seeking an encore, have begun their election campaign in the Marche region.
Monday Meloni in Amcona with deputy prime ministers
On Monday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and vice-presidents Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini will be in Ancona for a government-region institutional meeting on development projects.
Centrosinistra compact in support of Ricci
Igniting the debate isthe corruption investigation involving Ricci, as former mayor of Pesaro. M5s leader Giuseppe Conte, for now, will not ask for any steps back from the candidate who reiterated to the prosecutor's office his extraneousness to the charges in a five-hour interrogation. On Thursday, Dem secretary Schlein, on a tour in Pesaro, reiterated her support: 'in Marche, among the people. Let's go and win, come on Matteo Ricci'. Other support for the candidate of campo largo, in the presentation in Ancona of the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra lists. 'Avs will be decisive for the turnaround in the Marche,' Bonelli assures. 'Our result can reach double figures.
Salvini: we have governed well
.On the centre-right front, Deputy Prime Minister Salvini, on a visit to Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia and Macerata, sees a 'League as a protagonist in the centre-right at the regional elections' and does not blame Ricci for the investigation: 'I do not play the alternating-current Cricketer: when investigations concern the League or the centre-right, they are all delinquents and must resign. In a civilised country you are innocent until proven guilty. Ricci, Sala, all the people under investigation in the PD, for me they are good people, unless they are convicted in three degrees of justice'. And again: 'I don't come here to ask for the Marche people's vote because there are investigations against Ricci and the PD, but because I believe that we have governed well for five years and that the League is an added value'.
