All this afternoon the votes from the outlying polling stations in the hills around Barga and down at Fornaci di Barga where brought into Barga Vecchia and finally at 5 pm the results were posted up on the wall at Bar Capretz in front of a sizable crowd eager for the news of the day. Would there be an upset and a surprise in store of the inhabitants of Barga? The answer was a fairly predictable “No” As expected, the new mayor of Barga is MARCO BONINI with over 68% of the votes in his favour. It could be said that the people of Barga have voted to keep the “ship on course” following along the direction set by his  predecessor Umberto Sereni. 6225 valid votes (plus 136 blank slips and 182 votes deemed not valid)

MARCO BONINI votes; 4239  – 68.10 %
ORIANO BARTOLOMEI votes; 1642 – 26.38 %
GIULIANO GUIDI votes;  344  – 5.53 %

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The new Barga council will be formed by; Insieme per il futuro (Bonini): Vittorio Salotti (430);Nicola Boggi (327); Pietro Onesti (263); Maurizio Lucchesi e Gabriele Giovannetti (237); Caterina Campani (225); Alberto Giovannetti (216); Giampiero Passini (197); Paolo Caselli (196); Stefano Santi (183); Arturo Nardini (154); Giovanna Stefani (111); Giorgio Salvatici (109).
Spazio Libero; Oriano Bartolomei; Elena Barsanti (120); Guido Santini (121) Emma Biagioni (105); Luca Mastronaldi (101); Gesualdo Pieroni (98).
“Per Barga e i suoi paesi“: Giuliano Guidi.

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Click on the link below for a brief interview with Marco Bonini (in Italiano)

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