ROMA (ITALPRESS) – He has changed role, Antonio Decaro. But he didn’t change his position in Governance Poll. In his new role as president of the Apulia Region, Decaro opens the ranks of Governors, returning to the primacy he had already reached in six editions during his 10 years as mayor. This is noted by the new edition of the Governance Poll, the annual census on the consent of the mayors and presidents of the Region realized by Noto Sondaggi for Il Sole 24 Ore, today in newsstand with the newspaper.
Governance Poll 2026 is not an electoral simulation, but measures the relationship between mayors and citizens, influenced by administrative choices, communication skills and local socio-economic conditions. The 2026 edition shows a slight decrease in overall consensus: 50% is reached by 74 mayors on 92, 80%, compared to 85% last year.
The numbers of the annual census confirm that characteristic of Decaro as a consensus machine, decisive in the complicated weeks that in autumn they had led to his candidacy after a troubled comparison with Michele Emiliano, his predecessor both in the leadership of the Region and the Municipality of Bari. The move in Puglia moves after many years the gold medal in the ranking of the presidents of the Region from the Northeast, which still remains protagonist.
With 65% of citizens who say they are willing to revoke it if the elections were today, the Veneto Alberto Stefani arrives in second place, just one point from the primatist, and offers an undisturbed confirmation of that membership from the plebiscitari traits that has long marked the relationship between the Veneto and its predecessor Luca Zaia, always oscillating between first and second place in the Governance Poll in the many years of his mandates to Venice. The other confirmation comes from Massimiliano Fedriga, president of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, also he habitual guest of the podium. The Nordic duo, however, does not exhaust the picture of the excellent performances of the Leghisti presidents of the North, which is completed with the data of Attilio Fontana in Lombardy. With 57% of consents, Fontana ranks sixth and above all records a five-point increase compared to the 2025 edition, winning the strongest annual acceleration among Governors.
It is not easy to indicate a causal link between the numbers grounded by the northern members of the Carroccio and their found protagonism in the internal debate of the League, which was led by the hypothesis of creating a replica in the Po Valley sauce of the Csu model which at the moment seems frozen after the dry opposition of many of the party’s representatives closer to Vicepremier Matteo Salvini. The reasons for the favor spread among the citizens are perhaps to be sought in the fundamentals of a political-administrative machine now more than rodata, in territories where the centerleft has always struggled to assert itself outside the borders of the cities. As happens also in Piedmont, where Alberto Cirio (Fi) arrives fourth with a 60% consensus continuing its constant consolidation recorded in recent years.
The origin of the wind in the sails of the northern presidents of centerright cannot be identified instead in the progress of differentiated autonomy. I’m not here right now.
Of course, the Government has started the preintese with Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria and Veneto (Fedriga, under the guidance of a Region under special statute, is obviously not interested). But their content, equally for all regions, is strongly limited by constitutional illegitimacy enshrined in the Consulta for the first act of autonomy.
At the moment there are civil protection, occupations and supplementary pensions, as well as a strengthening of the existing autonomy in the health field. But the path is only at the beginning, and after the parliamentary examination of the pre-intensives should be translated into the bill of activism; however, they would hardly come to the finish in case of early elections in spring, as warned a couple of weeks ago the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti.
In the top steps of the ranking, however, the North dominates but does not have the monopoly. From Calabria the vice-secretary of Forza Italia Roberto Occhiuto confirms the southern exception, with the fourth place in sharing with Cirio thanks to a 60% that marks an improvement of two points regarding last year and 2,7 points in comparison with the responso delle urne.
Renato Schifani in Sicily is placed eighth. And it also reaches a primacy. Schifani is the governor whose consent has grown more in absolute among all from the date of the elections. Single in double digit, +13.9%.
At the eighth place together with the Sicilian governor there is also the lucan Vito Bardi up to Roberto Fico (Campania) in tenth position with the Marches Francesco Acquaroli, the Mezzogiorno is concentrated in the lower middle parts of the ranking. This year closed by a former aequo between Francesco Roberti (Molise), last also last year, and Francesco Rocca (Lazio).
Michele De Pascale (Emilia Romagna) is placed in 12th place, followed by Marco Marsilio (Abruzzo) in 13th place.
Under the “sufficiency” represented by 50% of consents meet Marco Bucci, the former mayor of Genoa now president of Liguria, at the sixteenth place; Stefania Proietti in Umbria, in the fourteenth place together with Alessandra Todde in Sardinia, which also improves by 2.5 points the result of the last edition.
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