Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set for her first regional election loss since winning power in 2022 after a centre-left candidate appeared to have won the vote for the president of Sardinia, partial results showed on Tuesday.
With almost all the votes counted, Alessandra Todde, a member of the left-leaning 5-Star Movement who was backed by the Democratic Party (PD), had 45.3% of the vote. That edged out Paolo Truzzu, a rightist candidate handpicked by Meloni, who had 45.0%.
Despite the narrow margin and the count not being totally completed, pollsters and newspapers called the result for Todde, who celebrated victory alongside 5-Star leader and former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Elly Schlein, head of the largest opposition group, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
Todde is set to be the first woman president of the island and the first president of any region from the 5-Star Movement.
A confirmed victory would also mark the first time that the centre-left has managed to flip a region since 2015 and the result will be a boost for opposition parties after years of ballot-box beatings.
via Reuters
Italian Eurofighter Typhoons affiliated with NATO shot down a drone that entered Lithuania's airspace.
A drone entered Lithuania's airspace before NATO fighter jets shot it down, the ...
A former Google DeepMind employee became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could "kill all humans", saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome.
Public a...
Morning Briefing
Government starts Budget 2027 consultations in Gozo
Prime Minister Robert Abela has launched a series of consultations with social partners ahead of Budget 2027, b...
Updated 1100
ECB Raises Interest Rates as Energy Costs Keep Inflation in Focus: The European Central Bank will raise its three key interest rates by 0.25 percentage points from 16 Sep...
The European Commission has unveiled an ambitious package of tax reforms aimed at simplifying tax rules across the European Union, reducing compliance burdens for businesses and strength...
The European Union's new Migration and Asylum Pact enters into force on 12 June, ushering in the most significant reform of the bloc's migration framework in years and placing renewed em...
A former Google DeepMind employee became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could "kill all humans", saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome.
Public a...
Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary on Thursday accused the head of Britain's air traffic control operator of lying about the cause of an outage that led to thousands of flight can...
Artificial intelligence has already transformed industries such as finance and education, but one of its most important tests may come in medicine: discovering new drugs.
Pharmaceutic...
Malta’s new pay transparency regulations, which came into effect on the 5th of June, aim to strengthen fairness and equality in the workplace, but employers are warning that the rushed i...
Malta Public Transport is encouraging passengers attending Una Notte Con Le Stelle at The Granaries, Floriana, on Saturday 5 September to make use of the regular night bus services opera...
The first edition of HEKATECH.HEALTH 2026, to be held in Malta on November 26, will focus on how health systems can reconcile two increasingly urgent demands: expanding access to new med...
Fears of renewed escalation gripped the Middle East on Wednesday after the United States and Iran exchanged their biggest barrage since July, with Washington striking Iran's southern co...
President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he had called off planned U.S. strikes on Iran, saying renewed negotiations had raised hopes of easing the conflict and reopening ship...
At least 32 people have been killed and more than 700 injured after two powerful earthquakes — measuring 7.2 and 7.5 — struck central Venezuela seconds apart, causing widespread destruct...
Thousands of Cuban security personnel have begun leaving Caracas after nearly two decades in Venezuela, as Washington ramps up efforts to dismantle the long standing alliance between the...
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he expected Moscow to escalate the war in "in the coming weeks", following Russian strikes that hit a Warsaw-bound train in Ukraine, just two kil...
The departure from Moldova of a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Norway was delayed when authorities closed the country's airspace over a drone alert, a Moldov...
