The Apulian regional election of 2015 were held on 31 May 2015.
Alfano: la data delle regionali è il 31 Maggio
La Repubblica, 24 March 2015
The centre-left candidate Michele Emiliano won the election with a large margin from the Five Star Movement
The Five Star Movement ( it, Movimento 5 Stelle , M5S) is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian an ...
's candidate, Antonella Laricchia. The centre-right coalition broke up, presenting two different candidates, Francesco Schittulli
Francesco Schittulli (born 21 April 1946 in Gravina in Puglia) is an Italian surgeon and politician.
Since 2000 is the President of the Lega Italiana per la Lotta ai Tumori (''Italian League Against Cancer'').
Biography
Francesco Schittulli wa ...
, supported by former governor Raffaele Fitto, and Adriana Poli Bortone
Adriana Poli Bortone (born 25 August 1943) is an Italian politician who was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2008. She represented Southern Italy. She was mayor of Lecce until 2007.
Biography
Born in Lecce, she became Assistant ...
, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia
Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...
, who arrived third and fourth.
Results
See also
*2015 Italian regional elections
A large round of regional elections were held in Italy on 31 May 2015 in seven of the twenty regions composing the country, including four of the ten largest ones: Campania, Veneto, Apulia and Tuscany. The other three regions holding elections w ...
References
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May 2015 events in Italy