The main conservative and progressive parties do not reach an agreement to elect the new head of state
The center-right tries unsuccessfully to impose Elisabetta Casellati, the president of the Senate,
The image of Antonio Tajani, hawk of the old and sick Silvio Berlusconi and former president of the European Parliament, speaking nervously on the phone in the middle of the afternoon from a building adjacent to the Italian Congress, left a record this Friday of the paralysis who has taken over Italian politics five days after voting began on Monday to elect the next President of the Republic. And nothing indicates that unlocking is easy.
The fifth day of voting sent Italian citizens, at least, proof that not only is the center-right not capable of imposing a single candidate, but also that inside it it has the so-called snipers, parliamentarians who do not vote like their party he orders them.
The result of this was that, in the first vote of the day, Elizabeth Casellati, The president of the Senate and the candidate chosen by Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League, garnered just 382 votes, about 70 fewer than the three parties of this center-right coalition, also made up of Brothers of Italy from Giorgia Meloni and Forza Italia from Silvio Berlusconi.
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The most difficult appointment in years of an Italian President of the Republic, which occurs in the midst of a pandemic and at a time of apparent economic prosperity in the country, began at 11 in the morning to conclude about four hours later, at which a second vote followed the same day, which also finally ended after dark.
The center-left did not provide greater clarity either. From eThe Democratic Party (PD) and the 5 Star Movement (M5S), the two great parties of this alliance, resorted, once again, to tactics, opting en masse for blank ballots, useful to buy more time and wear down the adversaries. All this always with two great ghosts that continued to hover over the Italian Parliament: that of mario draghi, the prime minister, and Sergio Mattarella, the outgoing president; both still ‘papable’ in the wishes of many.