Third day of voting for the election of the President of the Republic, even the last attempt with a two-thirds quorum ends with nothing. An absolute majority will suffice from tomorrow.
The center-left and Italia Viva rejected the shortlist of three names proposed yesterday by the center-right formed by Marcello Pera, Letizia Moratti and Carlo Nordio. Renzi, on the other hand, said he was a possibility on the President of the Senate Casellati, whose prices are on the rise like those of Casini, while the hypothesis of Mario Draghi remains on track.
The chronicle of the third day
18.30 - Towards the M5s meeting in attendance
The appointment has not yet been specified but the M5s president Giuseppe Conte intends to bring together the great electors of the Movement this evening. The meeting, he reports, should be held in attendance at 9 pm.
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6 pm - Brothers of Italy: "Salvini find the candidate of the coalition"
"FdI continues to believe that a compact vote by the center-right on a candidate of the coalition as unanimously assessed at the last summit is essential. Matteo Salvini has the mandate to identify, through his many interlocutors, the most attractive candidate among those presented yesterday". This was communicated in a note by the Brothers of Italy.
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17.28 - Di Maio: "We are looking for a shared name or the majority will break"
"If tomorrow we go to the wall between center-right and center-left, we risk seriously splitting the majority. We are looking for a shared name between center-right and center-left." This was said by Luigi Di Maio, Foreign Minister, on the sidelines of the proceedings in the Chamber on the Quirinale.
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5.00 pm - Salvini: "Near solution"
"I work with confidence, seriousness and optimism. The solution may be near". League leader Matteo Salvini says so.
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4.40 pm - Crosetto: "My vote shows that Meloni is working well"
"Don't let me talk about politics, I haven't dealt with it anymore for years. But I think my vote shows that Giorgia Meloni is working well, she is doing well to ask the center-right to have more courage. Tomorrow we should go ahead with our name ". Thus Guido Crosetto, in a corridor of the Chamber, reads the meaning of the 114 votes attributed to him. Around him many are lining up to congratulate: bipartisan congratulations, from dem exponents to those M5s.
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15.45 - Concluding count, blank ballots are down
White ballots dropped to 412. Outgoing president Sergio Mattarella got 125 votes. Boom of votes for Guido Crosetto, who collects 114 preferences and therefore almost double the great voters of Fdi. This is followed by the jurist Paolo Maddalena, voted by Alternative there and by the former M5s, and who this time reaches 61 votes. Pier Ferdinando Casini gets 52 preferences. In all, there were 978 present and voting, with 22 void ballots and 84 dispersed votes. We start again tomorrow at 11, an absolute majority will be enough.
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3.15 pm - Read: "Casellati absurd and incomprehensible operation"
“Proposing the candidacy of the second position of the state, together with the opposition, against their government allies would be an operation never seen in the history of the Quirinale. Absurd and incomprehensible. In short, it would represent the most direct way to blow everything up. ”Enrico Letta tweeted it.
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3.10 pm - The third black smoke is official
While the count is underway, it is already official - due to the high number of white ballots, the third black smoke in the election for the President of the Republic. Mattarella close to 120 votes, Crosetto a handful of votes below.
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3 pm - Many votes for Mattarella, Crosetto over the FDI "fence"
Mattarella close to 100 votes when we are just over half of the count. Crosetto also gets support outside the FDI: he has already obtained more than 80, compared to about sixty large voters of Giorgia Meloni's party
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14.55 - Letta sees Renzi
Long meeting between Enrico Letta and Matteo Renzi in the Chamber, in the offices of the Iv group. The conversation, sources from the Nazarene report, served to agree on the next steps. The secretary Dem confirmed that the Democratic Party is against a party candidacy that splits the majority. And who will do everything possible to stop it.
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2.35pm - Conte says no to Casellati
"Casellati is not just any candidate, he is an institutional position and putting an institutional position into play for an opposition without a shared solution would be a great mistake of the center-right and a great disgrace for the position of the Senate presidency. We invite the center-right to find a method and work in a shared way without an initiative that puts the institutions at stake ”, said Giuseppe Conte, arriving at Montecitorio.
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2.30 pm - The votes for Matterella are growing
In addition to the votes of Fdi in Crosetto, those for Sergio Mattarella are growing at the beginning of the count. There were 16 on the first day, 39 yesterday, already more than 50 today.
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2.20 pm - Conte: "Yes to Draghi, but to the government"
"The Movement says yes to Draghi, it said it a year ago and strengthens it now because Italy is still on its knees and now is the hardest moment. Let's say yes to Draghi and to the vision we have invested in him and we are available to relaunch and support government actions for a pact with citizens signed all together ". Giuseppe Conte said this when he arrived in Montecitorio.
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2.15 pm - Voting finished, counting starts
The third 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. At the drive-in polling station, 13 voted.
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2.00 pm - After the call of the deputies, now it's up to the delegates of the Regions
Finished in the Chamber of Deputies he calls her deputies for the election of the President of the Republic. Part now calls it of the delegates of the regions.
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1.30 pm - Wolves: "From tomorrow we vote twice a day"
"From tomorrow there will also be two votes a day. Is there a safety problem? The first vote will be held at 8 and the second at 17. On this it is right to give the idea that everyone is willing to work" . This is the proposal of Maurizio Lupi, president of Noi con Italia.
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12.50 - Ciriani (FDI): "We at no conclave, just blank ballots"
"We do not participate in any conclave." The leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Senate, Luca Ciriani, told reporters after confirming the vote on Guido Crosetto. "The candidates of yesterday's triad certainly remain in the field but since we register the willingness on the part of some groups to continue to vote blank ballot - he specified - President Meloni today indicated the name of Crosetto. He is one of the founders of Fratelli d'Italia, enjoys a transversal esteem "." It is a stone in the pond to say no more games, no more blank cards ", the conclusion.
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12.30 - Renzi: "In seven years I hope for a direct election"
"I hope that this is the last time that a president of the Republic is elected in this way. We must go to presidentialism or semi-presidentialism, that is the direct election of citizens. And this raises the issue of constitutional reforms". Matteo Renzi, leader of IV, says this, speaking to the Chamber. "Nobody can be scandalized if two votes come out for Amadeus. I hope it is the last time of these bieres, of these white ballots", he adds.
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12.05 pm - The call of the senators is over
In the Chamber of Deputies the call of the senators ended. Pending the start of the meeting of the deputies, the session is suspended for 5 minutes.
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11.50 am - FDI votes for Crosetto
Fratelli d'Italia during the third vote will vote for Guido Crosetto. This is what we learn from the sources of the Brothers of Italy. In fact, all those who did not answer the first call are now answering the second.
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11.45 am - FDI moves away from the center-right
"Brothers of Italy will not vote blank following the evaluations within the party. Without prejudice to the absolute compactness of the center-right which is not in the least questioned the image that Parliament is giving to the Italians is incomprehensible, we must give the assembly a signal: we cannot continue to remain in a stalemate for days ". This is what FDI sources disclose.
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11.40 am - Renzi: "Within two days we will have the President"
When will the President of the Republic be elected? "I keep hoping for tomorrow. But it's tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Word of Matteo Renzi.
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11.25 am - The FDI senators are not voting
The Fdi senators are not voting in the Chamber of Deputies, where the third vote is underway to elect the Head of State. The senators of Giorgia Meloni's party, although called, did not answer the first call. Thus Fdi somehow dissociates himself from the allies.
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11.20 - The updated odds of the bookmakers, Draghi favorite
Mario Draghi is confirmed at the top of the preferences of international bookmakers, with the Colle at 2.10. Leap for the President of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, who goes from 7 to 4.50, with Marta Cartabia, to 7.60. Off the podium Senator Pier Ferdinando Casini at 8.60, while the name of Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio and former minister in the Monti government, appears at a height of 9.60.
New entry - according to the bettors - also Elisabetta Belloni, currently head of the Department for information and security: the diplomat is played at 29, like Franco Frattini. It rises to 45 for the vice president of the Constitutional Court, Giuliano Amato, with the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni to 88.
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11.05 am - Start of voting operations
The third vote of the Parliament joint session, integrated by the regional delegates to elect the President of the Republic, kicks off in the Chamber of Deputies. At the bench of the presidency are the presidents of the Chamber and Senate Roberto Fico and Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. The quorum required is two thirds of the members of the College. From the next, the quorum will drop to an absolute majority.
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10.55 am - Pd, M5S and LeU will also vote blank ballot
The Democratic Party, the M5s and Leu confirm the blank ballot in the third vote. It is learned from center-left sources and confirmed by the Nazarene.
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10.25 - The center-right will vote blank ballot
The center-right will vote today on a blank ballot. This is what we learn from center-right sources after the meeting between Salvini, Meloni and Tajani.
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10 am - Salvini-Tajani-Meloni meeting
A meeting has just taken place in the offices of the League in the Chamber between Matteo Salvini, Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani.
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9.35 am - Salvini: "If Draghi left the government there would be confusion"
"We can't find the new prime minister in Campo de Fiori ... We are already working on a President of the Republic and I have an idea. If Draghi leaves the government we would have weeks of confusion, it would be a problem for Italy, with the crisis economic, health ... ". This was stated by the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, arriving in the Chamber.
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9.30 - Salvini: “Casellati? She doesn't need to be a candidate "
"Casellati? It is the second position of the state, it does not need to be a candidate .... Pera, Moratti and Nordio are good names. I hope that Conte and Letta do not stop at no, my attempt is to dialogue". Matteo Salvini says this before going to his offices in Montecitorio.
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9 am - Renzi: "Draghi still on track"
"If I think that Draghi can go to the Quirinale? Absolutely yes, he is still on track. And I am happy that this country has fallen in love with Draghi, because a year ago when I said that Conte had to be sent home, they told me I was crazy". These are the words of Matteo Renzi on the hypothesis that the premier moves to Colle.
8.50 - Renzi: "We will not vote for the three names of the center right"
"A step forward has been made with the three names of the center-right, we are finally talking about starting to discuss, to vote for names. Enough of this handful of white ballots that is badly linked to the situation we are experiencing. We must act quickly". These are the words of Matteo Renzi, who then states on the squad of the center-right: "They are level names but today we will not vote for them".
8 am - Italia Viva Assembly: "No foreclosure on Casellati"
Matteo Renzi met yesterday evening the assembly of the great voters of living Italy. The leader of IV, according to what we learn, has made a point of the discussions held in recent days and explained that Italia viva is working on a solution that unites, without preclusions. In the assembly, the no of Italia viva would emerge to the three names made by the center-right because they would not lead to widespread sharing, while on the profile of Elisabetta Casellati IV she would not have foreclosures, but the president of the Senate would vote only if her name were the agreement of all, in the logic of widespread sharing.
7.50 am - Conte also proposed his shortlist of names
Last night, according to what we learn, Giuseppe Conte also mentioned three names during the summit with Pd and LeU: names that were not discovered precisely to avoid being burned.
(Unioneonline / L)