by In Trieste
Trieste’s centre-right and centre-left candidates are neck and neck in exit polls as voting stops in Friuli Venezia Giulia’s the capital.
The first exit polls in the race for Trieste’s next mayor suggest a likely run-off between Francesco Russo (centre-left) and Roberto Dipiazza (centre-right) as voting stopped at 15.00 on Monday afternoon.
The first exit poll for state broadcaster RAI gives Dipiazza a 46 per cent share of the vote, followed closely by Russo on 33 per cent.
To be elected mayor in the first round, a candidate must get more than 50 per cent of the vote, otherwise the two highest-polling candidates will head into a run-off ‘ballottaggio’ on 17-18 October.
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