A woman at the Quirinale? Here is the toto-candidate

After the one launched at the beginning of January by Dacia Maraini and other writers, artists and intellectuals , appeals to political forces multiply for the election of a woman - the first in the history of the Republic - at the Quirinale, to succeed Sergio Mattarella, in term of office.

The vote in the House to choose the new head of state will begin on January 24 and the two names that continue to occupy the columns of the newspapers are those of Mario Draghi and Silvio Berlusconi .

But there is no shortage of hypotheses on possible candidates to hold the highest office in the state.

In recent weeks, Marta Cartabia , the current Minister of Justice, has been cited several times , for many also the optimum to allow Draghi to remain at Palazzo Chigi without too many jolts to the majority. Conversely, with the current prime minister elected al Colle, Cartabia could also be the right choice, a guarantee of continuity, for the presidency of the Council.

The center-right seems to be focusing decisively on Berlusconi, but even in this case there is no shortage of alternatives to women. Above all: Letizia Moratti , former Minister of Education and current Health Councilor of the Lombardy Region, and Maria Elisabetta Casellati , who already occupies the second position of the State as President of the Senate.

Center-left bank, on the other hand, the names of Anna Finocchiaro, Roberta Pinotti and Rosi Bindi have often come up.

There are also more "technical" hypotheses: such as the former minister Paola Severino or Elisabetta Belloni , former director general of the Farnesina and current head of the secret services. And then the jurist Lorenza Carlassare, Elena Paciotti , former president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, and Anna Maria Tarantola , former president of Rai.

Finally, the evergreen Emma Bonino , who had entered the contests for the election for the president as early as 1999 and at the last of 2013, managing to scrape together only fifteen votes in both cases.

She herself, however, has already declined, for the avoidance of doubt, every possible invitation to make herself available, with these words: "I say yes to a competent and authoritative woman for the Colle, but I don't think about myself, because I was ready 30 years does".

And Liliana Segre , a life senator who lived the horror of deportation to the Nazi concentration camps, was also called out immediately, underlining softly that at her age, 91, the climb to the Hill would be an honorable task, yes, but too burdensome.

(Unioneonline / lf)