Overview

• Chiara Appendino has reportedly threatened to resign as Five Star Movement vice president after poor regional results.
• At the party assembly, the former Turin mayor criticized weak territorial roots and the alliance with the PD, calling the outcome a political problem.
• The internal meeting was suspended and reconvened for today following the tense exchange over strategy and results.
• Vote totals highlight the decline: 4.4% in Tuscany versus 7% in 2020 and 15% in 2015, about 5% in Marche, and 6.4% in Calabria for M5S-backed Pasquale Tridico, with a related civic list at 7.6%.
• Local fallout included two Livorno city councillors resigning, and Giuseppe Conte closing parts of the campaign on his own, as attention turns to next month’s Campania race led by Roberto Fico.