Voting continues in the Chamber to elect the new President of the Republic. But even on the fourth day the smoke was black: the center left voted white ballot, the center right abstained. And the majority of valid votes were collected by the outgoing president Sergio Mattarella, followed by the prosecutor Nino Di Matteo.

Therefore, the maneuvers and negotiations, internal and external, in parties and coalitions continue to try to find a shared name.

In these hours, the hypothesis of Elisabetta Belloni, diplomat and currently director general of the Security Information Department, has made its way.

But the option of a convergence of votes on Mattarella, who has repeatedly ruled out his encore at Colle, is also taking on a share, but who, in the face of the bipartisan request of all - or almost all - parties could revise his position. Or the convergence could be towards the name that could really make everyone agree, if there were not the "grain" that it is the current head of the government: Mario Draghi. Antonio Tajani, coordinator of Forza Italia, however, heard the premier, then reiterating the Berlusconi line: "He must stay at Palazzo Chigi".

In a climate of uncertainty, Matteo Salvini tries to find the right name to bring to the classroom. One in particular: that of former Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.

The fifth vote is scheduled for Friday at 11am.

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The chronicle of the fourth day

19.50 - Renzi: "Indecorous show" - Very hard post by Matteo Renzi on social media: " The indecent show of those who exchanged the election of the President of the Republic with

X Factor hearings proves only one thing: citizens must choose the President directly. They are ridiculing the height of parliamentary democracy ".

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7.45 pm - "Salvini works on Frattini"

Center-right sources report that Matteo Salvini is working on Franco Frattini's candidacy. The League does not comment.

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19.30 - Tajani meets Draghi

Antonio Tajani, coordinator of Forza Italia, was in Palazzo Chigi in the afternoon for a meeting with Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The meeting, according to what we learn in blue circles, was "cordial". It is explained that FI's position does not change, so Draghi must continue his work at the head of the government.

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18.30 - Center-right, summit at 21 - The contacts in the center-right continue and the summit, scheduled for 19, has been postponed to after 21. This was reported by sources from the same center.

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18.00 - Read: "No meeting with Salvini"

Was there a phone call with Salvini? "No". So have you seen each other? "No meeting". Thus the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, replied to the journalists by joining the dem group in the Chamber.

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5.15 pm - Cassese: “Who will go up to Colle? Ask the 1009 "

Who will be the head of state? "This question should be asked of 1009 people, not me ...". Sabino Cassese said this to RaiNews microphones. As for the hypothesis of Draghi's passage from Palazzo Chigi to Colle “it is only partially unpublished, there are precedents of not so immediate passages. It is legitimate and possible with a simple procedure, made possible because the elected president is not yet in office. There is a time frame to make the switch. "

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16.20 - Salvini: "We need to close quickly"

"We will offer proposals of the highest level. I want to resolve the issue well, quickly, with the widest consensus. I will not leave them to others." So Matteo Salvini after the fourth black smoke for the Colle. "I plan to bring to the tables some profiles that I hope they gather everyone's yes ", added the secretary of the League." People are asked of me outside politics, without cards in their pockets, appreciated nationally and internationally ". "My goal - continued Salvini - is to keep the center-right united and keep the majority together. I trust that tomorrow will be a good day". And on the votes to Mattarella: "Of esteem for the work done, but he has already repeatedly reiterated that he is not available".

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3.10 pm - Suspended session, we will start again tomorrow at 11 am

Roberto Fico, after reading the results of the fourth vote, suspended the session, which was reconvened for tomorrow, again at 11.

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3 pm - The results of the vote

The counting in Montecitorio has ended. The results: 441 abstentions, 261 blank ballots, 166 votes to Sergio Mattarella, 56 to Nino Di Matteo, 8 to Luigi Manconi, 6 to Marta Cartabia, 5 to Mario Draghi, 4 to Giuliano Amato, 3 to Pier Ferdinando Casini, 2 to Elisabetta Belloni, Maria Teresa Baldini and Pierluigi Bersani. There are 16 votes missing, 5 null ballots.

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14.50 - The fourth black smoke is official

Now it is official, the election of the Head of State is still postponed. The votes for Mattarella are growing more and more, now at 150.

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14.45 - Mattarella the most voted, former M5S choose Di Matteo

The votes of Alternativa C'e, former M5S member of the Mixed Group, move from Paolo Maddalena to another magistrate, Nino Di Matteo. Mattarella is already on 100 votes, close to 125 obtained yesterday. It is the most voted.

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2.30 pm - 433 abstentions

433 large voters abstained, numbers that roughly mirror those of the center-right. For now Mattarella the most voted, but even today the election of the President of the Republic will postpone.

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2.20 pm - Voting concluded, counting begins

The fourth vote of the Parliament in joint session, integrated by the delegates of the regions to elect the President of the Republic, ended in the Chamber of Deputies. Now the counting starts, which is carried out personally by the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico. It will last less than the rectory now that it took in the previous votes, given the abstention of the center-right.

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2.10 pm - It's up to the regional delegates

Match calls it from the regional delegates, the last to vote. Then off to the bare.

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2.00 pm - Di Maio: "Belloni excellent person"

"Elisabetta is a high profile, I worked on it together at the Farnesina but we don't burn names and above all we don't split the government majority". Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said this while conversing with reporters on the Transatlantic.

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13.35 - Session suspended after the vote of the deputies, it starts again at 14

After the vote of the deputies in the Chamber of Deputies, the session, now suspended, will resume from 14 with the delegates of the regions.

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1.15 pm - M5S in white too - The leaders of the M5S were given the indication to vote by blank ballot but also leaving the possibility to express oneself in freedom of conscience. This is what is learned from accredited sources of the Movement.

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1 pm - Salvini reiterates: "A name for the center-right" - "I am working in the center-right and that remains the main road, as far as I'm concerned. Not a party name but a center-right cultural area". This was reiterated by the secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini.

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12.20 - The senators have voted, now the deputies

The vote of the senators for the election of the President of the Republic was concluded in the Chamber. Now the deputies vote.

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12.10 pm - Renzi: “Center-right abstention? Bewildered "

"I struggle to find words to express bewilderment. Net of the names you cannot afford not to participate in the vote, it is neither in heaven nor on earth, I am surprised and embittered this was the final exams and they justified themselves". So Matteo Renzi conversing with the reporters in Montecitorio, about the choice of the center-right. "The basic principle is that this should have been the great opportunity for the center-right to show institutional culture" and instead "the first three are white, the fourth do not vote ...".

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11.50 - Salvini: "I don't want a flag candidate"

"I am confident, I am optimistic. Abstention is to avoid clashes, I do not want a leading candidate, I would like a candidate or a good candidate". Matteo Salvini said this when speaking with reporters in the House. "Let's accelerate, we don't want any show of strength," added the Northern League leader.

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11.30 - Fonti Fdi, don't mind Cassese and Belloni

According to what is learned from sources close to the Brothers of Italy, for Giorgia Meloni the possibility of expressing a president of the Republic expression of the center-right area, on which to work and the party would not mind the names of Sabino, remains valid and within reach. Cassese and Elisabetta Belloni.

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11.10 am - Irritation of Melons due to abstention

Irritation of Giorgia Meloni in the center-right summit who opted for abstention in the fourth vote on the Quirinale, on which instead the leader of FdI had asked, as yesterday, to express herself by voting for a name of the center-right area, to overcome the deadlock and even after the result obtained by Guido Crosetto. This is what we learn from center-right sources present at this morning's meeting.

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11 am - The session resumes

The call of the senators for the fourth vote of the President of the Republic begins. The President of the Chamber Roberto Fico reminds that from today an absolute majority is enough to elect the new tenant of the Quirinale, therefore 505 votes.

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11 am - + Europe and Action: "Let's vote Cartabia"

"After the first three votes, the election of the President of the Republic is still on the high seas. The stalemate with each passing day is more dangerous, for a country that needs solid and credible institutions. This is why the great voters of Action and + Europe will also give their vote to Marta Cartabia today ". This is what we read in a note from the Libdem federation which gathered its electors this morning.

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10.55 am - Crossed vetoes in the center-right

In the center-right summit, what is learned, Forza Italia would have put a veto on Draghi, Fratelli d'Italia on Casini.

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10.50 am - Read: "No to winners and losers, yes to dialogue"

"In this Parliament where there is no center-right or center-left majority, in order to be able to elect as we all want and as Italian citizens want a President of the Republic or a President of the Republic, there must be no one winner or losers, it is necessary for everyone to compete for a solution without winners and losers, if we do not leave this logic, I believe that we will not succeed ".

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10.35 - M5S, Pd and LeU announce blank ballot

M5s, Pd and Leu will vote today in the fourth ballot for the election of the head of state. This is learned from the center-left summit. We therefore move towards the fourth black smoke.

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10.30 - The center-right announces the abstention

"The center-right has decided to propose the willingness to vote for a name of high institutional value. To allow the big voters of all groups to overcome vetoes and conflicts - and converge to give Italy a new president of the Republic - the coalition has decided to declare their vote of abstention in today's vote The center-right is ready to ask to

proceed tomorrow with the double vote. "So in a common note from the center-right.

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10.20 am - Pd-M5S-LeU summit starts

Pd, M5S and Leu return to see each other before the start of the fourth day of voting for the President of the Republic. Leaders and group leaders participate in the meeting.

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10 am - Conte: “M5S changes position? Nonsense ... "

"Does the M5S change its position? It is misinformed, the Movement has a linear position from the beginning: the names we have mentioned at the table are super partes and are always the same, obviously we are available to evaluate the others too. So don't talk nonsense. that we change our position ... Our position is always the same ". Thus the M5S leader Giuseppe Conte, answering the questions of the reporters outside Montecitorio.

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9.40 am - Italia Viva votes blank ballot

Iv will vote blank ballot today in the fourth ballot. This is what is learned from party sources.

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9.10 - The center-right summit starts

The summit of the center-right leaders has started in the offices of the Lega group in Montecitorio. Present at the meeting were the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, the President of Fdi Giorgia Meloni, the national coordinator of Fi Antonio Tajani, the leader of Noi con Italia, Maurizio Lupi, Antonio De Poli and Lorenzo Cesa of the UDC, Giovanni Toti and Luigi Brugnaro for Coraggio Italia.

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8.55 am - Salvini: "Casini name of the left"

"Casini? It's a proposal from the left, he was elected with the Democratic Party". Thus the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini. But he was also elected with you in the past, the reporters ask. And Salvini: "Exactly ...".

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8.50 am - Salvini: "Draghi remains in Chigi"

"I continue to work on a proposal for a center-right. Draghi will stay at Palazzo Chigi, no playing games with the premier." Matteo Salvini said this when he arrived in Montecitorio for the center-right summit.

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8.45 am - Renzi: “I think it will close tomorrow

"I think it will not close today, I believe it will close tomorrow. I believe that the center-right will let one more lap pass, and then tomorrow they will go to milder advice. Today will be another day of lost time. The leader of Italia viva says so. Matteo Renzi on Radio Leopolda, adding that "this is a liturgy that was fine in the 40s and 50s".

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8 am - Marcucci (Pd): "Casini possible meeting point"

"Casini is certainly a possible meeting point. We know from the first vote that a super partes name is needed to guarantee national unity". Thus the senator Pd Andrea Marcucci in connection with Omnibus on la 7.

(Unioneonline / L)

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