Sicilian regional election, 2006

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May 28, 2006

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All 80 seats to the Sicilian Regional Assembly

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Salvatore Cuffaro	Rita Borsellino
Party	UDC	The Olive Tree
Alliance	House of Freedoms	The Union
Last election	57 seats, 59,1%	29 seats, 36.6%
Seats won	55	35
Seat change	-2	+6
Popular vote	1,374,706	1,078,179
Percentage	53.1%	41.6%
Swing	-6,0%	+5,0%

President of Sicily before election

Salvatore Cuffaro
House of Freedoms

President of Sicily

Salvatore Cuffaro
House of Freedoms

The Sicilian regional election of 2006 for the renewal of the the Sicilian Regional Assembly and the Presidency of Sicily was held on 28 May 2006.

The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, incumbent President and House of Freedoms candidate; Rita Borsellino, candidate of The Union; and Nello Musumeci, MEP elected for the National Alliance and now leader of the autonomist movement Sicilian Alliance. In the end, Cuffaro won the election, despite a heavy loss of support compared with five years before, when he was elected with 59.1% of votes.

Salvatore Cuffaro, 48, was first elected at the Sicilian Presidency in the July 2001 with 59.1% of regional votes; that election was held immediately after the national election which saw the centre-right win all the 61 Sicilian ridings. Cuffaro is a prominent member of Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, a Christian democratic party. Often associated to the mafia by his critics because of an open investigation by the magistrature of Palermo which brought to a trial commitment, Cuffaro will nevertheless head the regional UDC list of candidates for the April general election.

Rita Borsellino, 61, sister of the late judge Paolo assassinated by the mafia, gained the centre-left candidacy after having won a primary election with over 67% of votes. She is not member of any party. If elected, she would be the first female president ever in Sicily.

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