2001 Rome municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Rome on 13 May 2001, the same day of Italian general elections. The outgoing Mayor Francesco Rutelli, prevented to run for a third consecutive term by the Italian law on local government, had resigned from his position on 8 January that year to run as the main candidate of the centre-left coalition in the national general election. The two main candidates were the former Minister of Cultural Heritage, former Deputy Prime Minister and current secretary of the Democrats of the Left (DS) party Walter Veltroni and the liberal-conservative MEP  Antonio Tajani, a prominent member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) party. Since none of the candidates obtained the majority of votes on the first round, a second round vote was held on 27 May 2001. Background. Following the end of the Legislature XIII of Italy, Rutelli was chosen to lead the centre-left coalition during the 2001 general election and resigned as Mayor of Rome on 8 January 2001, just two days after the end of the Great Jubilee on which he had spent all his second term. Mayoral election. The centre-right coalition, led by Antonio Tajani , had been heavily defeated by Rutelli in the 1997 election. Tajani rejected a formal alliance with the far-right parties and preferred a liberal-conservative coalition, like the one which supported Silvio Berlusconi in the general election. Thanks to the overlap with the general election, which saw a huge victor of the House of Freedoms alliance, the centre-right coalition unexpectedly succeeded to win the majority of votes across the city. Although a strong performance of his coalition, Tajani wasn't able to win the race and on the second round he had to concede to Veltroni, who showed to  have a strong support in the city. Despite the lower number of votes, the centre-left coalition obtained the majority of seats in the City Council thanks to the electoral system's mechanisms. Voting System. The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This  gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed. The election of the city council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally. Section::::"Municipi" election. Table below shows the results for each "municipio" with the percentage for each coalition on the first round: Table below shows the results for each "municipio" with the percentage for each coalition on the second round: 2001 Rome municipal