The Campania regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010. The region came out from ten years of undisputed dominance by the centre-left led by Antonio Bassolino ( DS). A former Mayor of

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and minister, he was re-elected by a landslide 61.6% of the vote in 2005. However, in his second term in office, Bassolino highly disappointed voters and the whole

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for his bad management of waste and the subsequent

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. The centre-left filed as candidate

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, a fellow Democrat and popular Mayor of Salerno who had been one of the loudest critics of Bassolino from within his coalition, but it was not able to recover. Stefano Caldoro, a former minister and leader of the

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, merged into

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in 2009, won by a convincing margin over De Luca thanks to a 20% swing in favour of the centre-right, which included the Union of the Centre led by Ciriaco De Mita, an influent former leader of Christian Democracy converted into the role of local party boss. After the election, De Mita's nephew,

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was appointed Vice President by Caldoro. The People of Freedom was by far the largest party in the region with more than 30% of the vote.

Results

References

{{Elections in Campania Elections in Campania 2010 elections in Italy