Vincenzo Ciampi (M5S) is the new mayor of Avellino. At the end of the runoff election—which saw a sharp decline in turnout—the M5S candidate received 59,5%, or 13.694 votes, beating Nello Pizza, the center-left coalition candidate, who received 40,4%, or 9.307 votes. A 50-year-old from Avellino, a Revenue Agency official and a longtime activist of the Movement, Ciampi had won 20,2% of the vote in the first round, compared to Pizza's 42,9%, whose supporting lists had received 53% of the vote, securing a majority: 18 out of 32 seats. Ciampi's victory, which in the second round benefited from the unofficial support of two civic lists and the center-right mayoral candidate, which had been eliminated in the first round, has brought the M5S one new seat, bringing its total to six, and one seat to Forza Italia. "There's no rematch," the new mayor said, referring to the fact that he still lacks a council majority, "but a commitment to making every single councilor's responsibility available to the city." Ciampi also announced that he will appoint "a council with a high technical profile" and that he intends to proceed "by finding a majority on individual issues." Turnout in the runoff was 50,3%, down 20,9% from the first round when the percentage was 71,2%.
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