“I’m working to have a woman president and a good one, not as a woman but as a good person.” Matteo Salvini says this as he leaves the Chamber. This is the announcement in the evening by the leader of the League, at the end of a series of meetings, which seems to mark a turning point in the complicated negotiations between the parties to choose the new head of state. The thesis is relaunched by the president of the M5s: “There is finally the possibility of having a female president of the Republic”. So Giuseppe Conte, speaking to the cameras outside Montecitorio.
Meanwhile, the counting of the sixth vote is underwayfor the election of the President of the Republic. A new summit between Enrico Letta, Giuseppe Conte and Roberto Speranza ended close to the convocation of the classroom. The Giallorossi, as well as Italia Viva have decided to vote for a blank ballot . In any case, the parliamentarians of Forza Italia, Lega and Fdi have been given an indication not to withdraw the ballot and therefore also the sixth ballot will end with a black smoke.
However, we are already looking at the seventh vote, scheduled for tomorrow morning at 9.30: ” We have opened a negotiation ” with Pd, M5s and Leu, said the leader of the Forza Italia senators, Annamaria Bernini shortly after 17.30. Half an hour later, we learn of a meeting between Giuseppe Conte, Matteo Salvini and Enrico Lettain the offices of the 5-star Movement in the Chamber. He said Letta: “I am optimistic, not very optimistic, let’s not exaggerate: we are discussing. In my opinion it is very important that dialogue is opened”. The dem secretary adds: “It had to happen 4 days ago, we threw 4 days away because the center-right had to go all the way around to get to the fact that there are no numbers to elect a president. This fragmented Parliament can only express a president or a president who is the subject of a broad agreement. We will do everything to find a good solution quickly. ”
The center-left forces, according to what is learned, have offered Salvini a shortlist made up of the names of Mattarella, Draghi, Belloni, Casini and Cartabia, which the leader of the Carroccio and then went to discuss with the other parties of the coalition. The vice-president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa , speaking with journalists, said: “Among these names that you have read to me, I remember that Belloni’s had been judged by Meloni as a possible point of agreement – together with that of Cassese. So, I deduce that Belloni could be a name for us to evaluate “. Instead, he continues, “if they want to elect Draghi they have the numbers in their majority, Brothers of Italy and irrelevant”. Giorgia Meloni wrote on Facebook: “Italy has only one way to get out of the blockade created by certain politics: immediate elections to give the nation a government worthy of the name.After the election of the President of the Republic, the word goes back to the Italians . ”
In the afternoon, the secretary of the Lega Matteo Salvini met with Prime Minister Mario Draghi . The two were seen leaving a few minutes away from each other from the same building near via Veneto The fifth ballot
Over 60 snipers, this morning, they ditched the candidacy of the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati: the preferences collected were 382, ​​another 15 votes remained at Forza Italia (eight to Silvio Berlusconi, seven to the coordinator Antonio Tajani). The magistrate Nino Di Matteo received 38 votes, seven to the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia, six to Pierferdinando Casini, three to Draghi, two to the director of the Security Information Department, Elisabetta Belloni. The abstentions, attributable to Pd, Cinquestelle and Leu, were 406. The large voters present were 936 out of 1009: 73 therefore the absentees, mostly parliamentarians from Italia Viva (44), in addition to eight center-right exponents .
Throughout the counting Casellati remained seated next to the Speaker of the Chamber Roberto Fico: the Democratic Party contested the decision, defining “completely inappropriate for the President of the Senate in today’s countdown to co-chair the ballot of the ballots, effectively checking the votes for herself “. And recalling how “in 1992, when Oscar Luigi Scalfaro found himself in a similar condition, he refrained from presiding over the ballot, leaving the task to Vice President Rodota”.
With closed notebooks, in the center-right the outcome of the vote is traced back to discontent within Forza Italiafor how the game was conducted. Lega and Fratelli d’Italia assure that they have voted tightly. Brothers of Italy and Lega assure that they have voted compactly for Casellati: “Look among the centrists and in Forza Italia” to find the saboteurs, said Ignazio La Russa, also the protagonist of a skirmish with the president of Liguria Giovanni Toti, with accusations crossed on responsibility for the outcome of the vote.
Two more ballots are scheduled for tomorrow (in case of further ‘black smokes’), at 9.30 and 16.30.
