2025 municipal elections in San Felice del Benaco: polls open to choose the new mayor

Brescia, May 25, 2025 – Here we are. A new round of elections is underway . Polls are open today, Sunday, May 25, from 7:00 to 23:00, and tomorrow, Monday, May 26, from 7:00 to 15:00. There are 18 municipalities in Lombardy voting to choose the mayor and renew the Council, only one in the province of Brescia. This appointment is marked by a common denominator: none of these Administrations will expire naturally after the five years required by law. There are various reasons: political crises, resignations, sudden disappearances.

San Felice del Benaco

San Felice del Benaco, the only municipality in the Brescia area to vote, is starting from scratch , after the administration of last summer. A year ago, the electoral round ended with the victory of Lorenza Baccolo who led the civic group Obiettivo San Felice, but the Administration was never installed: the majority of the councilors had resigned before the installation, determining the dissolution of the Municipal Council and the arrival of the commissioner .

Three are running for election . Luca Serafini , minority councilor in the five-year period 2019-2024 under the Zuin Administration, is the candidate for Civica per Passione. Marzia Manovali , municipal councilor with responsibility for Culture and Tourism from 2009 to 2019 and currently on the board of directors of the Cominelli Foundation, is the candidate for mayor of Civica per San Felice. Gianluigi Marsiletti , former mayor from 2004 to 2009 and then opposition councilor, leads the Nuovo Impegno Civico list.

The challenges in Lombardy

In Lombardy, the elections will involve 230,426 residents : 187,686 voters will be called to the polls between Sunday 25 and Monday 26 May in the 210 sections set up in the polling stations of the region. Without an absolute majority, there will be a runoff between the two mayoral candidates on 8 and 9 June. This eventuality will only concern four municipalities this year, the only ones with a population above 15 thousand inhabitants: Cernusco sul Naviglio and Rozzano in the province of Milan, Desio in the province of Monza and Brianza, Saronno in the province of Varese . The other 14 Lombardy centers voting, however, will know the final result on the evening of 26 May: to wear the tricolor sash, in fact, one more vote will be enough.

The Decrees of the President of the Republic calling for five popular abrogative referendums with the convening of the related rallies for Sunday 8 and Monday 9 June 2025 were also published in the Official Journal of the Italian Republic no. 75 of 31 March 2025.