Free Trieste

Free Trieste challenges Cosolini and Dipiazza with passive and active abstention from the vote

Surprising enough, the 19 June second round of voting for the appointment of the mayor of Trieste does no longer have just two runners, Roberto Cosolini and Roberto Dipiazza. There is also an external, political opponent, the Free Trieste Movement, which challenges both of them with passive and active abstention from the vote and then is requesting the Municipality be placed under compulsory administration.

On 5 June, during the first electoral round, Free Trieste suggested passive abstention, which was chosen by 47% of the voters, and abstention with reasons, exercised by the activists of the Movement by lodging at polling stations a form that denounces «the illegitimacy of the Italian voting system in the Free Territory of Trieste under provisional administration, and the manifest inadequacy of the candidates».

The abstentions of 5 June reduced to 20% and 15% respectively the representativeness of the two candidates, Dipiazza and Cosolini, who are now admitted to the second round, to be held on 19 June, when Free Trieste challenges them with the absolute alternative of passive and active abstention, so extending its invitation also to those who voted during the first round for the parties that are now excluded.

Passive abstention does simply consist in not voting, while the form and the instructions of active abstention are available on line, on the website of the Free Trieste Movement (LINK) which, after 19 June, is opening the collection of signatures of the citizens on new forms, requesting the municipality be placed under compulsory administration.

Press Office of the Free Trieste Movement