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
Michele Emiliano (born 23 July 1959) is an Italian politician and former judge. He is the incumbent president of Apulia Region since June 2015, and he previously served as mayor of Bari from 2004 to 2014. Emiliano has often been considered a pop ...
won the election with a large margin from the Five Star Movement
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's candidate, Antonella Laricchia. The centre-right coalition broke up, presenting two different candidates, Francesco Schittulli, supported by former governor Raffaele Fitto
Raffaele Fitto (; born 28 August 1969) is an Italian politician who has served as Vice-President of the European Commission, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Cohesion and Refo ...
, and Adriana Poli Bortone
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Biography
Born in Lecc ...
, supported by Silvio Berlusconi
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's Forza Italia
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, 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 ...
References
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2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
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Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
May 2015 in Italy