Italy fails in fifth attempt to elect president

The image of Antonio Tajani, falcon of the old and sick Silvio Berlusconi and former president of the European Parliament, who is nervously talking on the phone in the middle of the afternoon from a building next to the Italian Congress, has a record of left the paralysis. who took over Italian politics five days after the vote began Monday to elect the next president of the Republic. And nothing suggests that unlocking is easy.

The fifth day of voting has at least sent Italian citizens proof that not only the center-right is incapable of forcing a single candidate, but also that it has the so-called snipers, parliamentarians who do not like them some do not vote. he commands them.

The result was that, in the first vote of the day, Elisabetta Casellati, The president of the Senate and the candidate elected by Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League, received only 382 votes, about 70 less than the three parties of this center-right coalition, which is also from Brothers of Italy of Italy existed. Giorgia Meloni and Forza Italia from Silvio Berlusconi.

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The most difficult appointment in years of an Italian president of the Republic, taking place in the midst of a pandemic and in a time of apparent economic prosperity in the country, began at 11 a.m., ending about four hours later, followed by a second vote the same day, which also finally ended after dark.

The center-left also did not provide greater clarity. Van eThe Democratic Party (PD) and the 5 Star Movement (M5S), the two major parties of this alliance, once again resorted to tactics, opting en masse for empty ballot papers, useful for buying more time and tiring the opponents. All this always with two big ghosts that keep hovering over the Italian Parliament: that of Mario Draghi, the Prime Minister, and Sergio Mattarella, the outgoing president; both still ‘papable’ in the wishes of many.