The center-left candidate, Rosario Crocetta, was ahead in the polls at 30 percent, running on a ballot with a multi-party alliance, while the results dealt a further blow to former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconis People of Liberty party, whose candidate, Sebastiano Musumeci, was struggling to rea
With over 50 percent of votes counted, Rosario Crocetta of the Democratic Party (PD) was leading with 30.88 percent, ahead of the PDL's Sebastiano Musumeci with 24.90 percent, robbing him of what was once the centre-right's stronghold on the Mediterranean island.
Rosario Crocettaan openly gay candidate backed by a coalition of leftist and Catholic partiesgarnered 31% of the vote, beating Sebastiano Musumeci, the center-right candidate backed by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Mr. Musumeci received a quarter of the vote. "This is a Sicily that want