It ends with two black smokes and a crack to quickly close the fifth day of voting in the House to elect the new President of the Republic.
The morning vote ended with Elisabetta Casellati's flpo, a candidacy put forward by the center-right, which however stopped (the quorum at 505) with 382 preferences, followed by 46 votes for Mattarella, 38 for Di Matteo, 8 for Berlusconi, 7 for Tajani and Cartabia, 6 for Casini, 3 for Draghi, 2 for Belloni and Joseph Cesar Perrin, ideologue of Union Valdotaine.
A failure, that of the President of the Senate, sanctioned - as well as by the announced abstention of the center-left - also by numerous "snipers" within the center-right.
In the afternoon session, however, the name of the outgoing president Sergio Mattarella prevailed, and with an avalanche, who collected 336 votes, in front of the prosecutor Di Matteo, who obtained 41 votes. And then: Casini 9, Manconi 8. Draghi and Cartabia have collected 5, Belloni 4, Amato 3, Casellati 2.
But even in this case abstention reigned: 445 voters who defected called it, while the blank ballots were more than a hundred.
Another smoke - the sixth - black, interlocutory, which however took place in conjunction with a series of meetings between the leaders.
Matteo Salvini saw Enrico Letta, Giuseppe Conte and also Mario Draghi. Then he met the big names of Forza Italia. And the dialogue has opened up new scenarios.
"We are discussing a name. I do not know if Saturday will be a good day. We try to be as quick and efficient as possible: everyone is a minority but it is important that within the majority that supports the government there is an agreement, which can be even wider ”, said the secretary of the Democratic Party Letta.
Salvini, on the other hand, went into more detail: "I'm working to have a female president, a smart woman, I don't mention names or surnames".
