The counting of the fifth ballot for the election of the new President of the Italian Republic has just been completed in the Italian Parliament.
The center-right candidate and current speaker of the Senate, Elizabeth Caselati, received 382 votes. At the same time, a total of 406 deputies and senators decided to abstain. They are elected representatives of the center-left, the Italian left and the Five Stars.
Incumbent President Sergio Matarella received 46 votes, Judge Nino Di Matteo 38, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi 8 and 7 Forza Italia party co-ordinator Antonio Taiani.
The message of the vote is that about 70 center-right MPs and senators did not want to support Kaselati’s candidacy. The whole effort is complicated and in the next two hours a new series of moves is expected to be made, to find -at last- a candidate for mutual acceptance.
According to many observers, the secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini (who showed great mobility in recent days) failed to build the necessary “bridges” with the center-left and the Five Stars.
Finally, if this controversy continues, the very stability and future of the broad-based government alliance led by Mario Draghi could be jeopardized.
Source: AMPE
Source From: Capital
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