Voters from the right-wing bloc abstained while those from the left-wing bloc voted blank during the count, in which more than a thousand parliamentarians and representatives of the regions have the right to participate.
The two fronts have intensified the negotiations since as of this Thursday the votes necessary to be anointed president of Italy were reduced to 505.
According to former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi it is “close” to reaching an agreement and it is not excluded that on Friday Italy will have a new president of the Republic.
Neither of the two blocs has enough votes to elect their own candidate, so an agreement is necessary.
The functions of the president are essentially honorary in Italy, where the parliamentary system rules, but this year the role of Mario Draghi, current prime minister, a personality of great weight and prestige, whose election to the presidency would put the government in crisis, in charge of getting the country out of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.
Many parliamentarians fear that in the event that Draghi is elected, a crisis will break out that could end in early elections, which is in nobody’s interest.
Draghi is “beautiful where he is now”, he reiterated Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League, among the protagonists of the negotiations.
At the same time, other names circulate for the position, among them that of the former president of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Christian Democratic International, Pier Ferdinando Casini, that of the current president of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, as well as that of the experienced diplomat Elisabetta Belloni.
Source From: Ambito
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