AGI – At 9.30 the new round, in case of another stalemate, the next one is scheduled for 16.30. We start this morning with the meetings of the assemblies of the big party voters to break the deadlock.
Possible a majority table as proposed by Letta: “The solution on the Hill cannot be one that splits the majority”. League leader pushes for a female president. But Belloni is rejected by Iv and Casellati does not pass.
The rose that Matteo Salvini has four petals told the allies of the center that he had received from the Democratic Party for the choice of the shared candidate for the presidency of the Republic. The rose – as reported by center-right sources – includes the names of two men and two women. These are Elisabetta Belloni, Paola Severino. Giuliano Amato and Pierferdinando Casini.
After the bipartisan ‘niet’ to Elibetta Belloni – who came from various majority parties Iv, FI and Leu – the prices of a possible candidacy for the Quirinal by Minister Marta Cartabia are growing. Yesterday evening the rumor of a possible meeting between Matteo Salvini and the Keeper of the Seals had also spread, but this was denied by the League secretariat.
In the majority, in particular Iv and the centrists would be in favor of this hypothesis, even part of the League, while Salvini has never expressed himself. Support from the M5s is more difficult, a party that has repeatedly criticized the justice reform projects under its signature.
10:15
Forza Italia abstains on the recommendation of Berlusconi
“On the recommendation of President Berlusconi for this morning’s vote Forza Italia has decided to abstain”. Antonio Tajani, National Coordinator of Forza Italia, writes on Twitter
On the recommendation of the President @berlusconi for this morning’s vote @forza_italia has decided to abstain.#Quirinale
— Antonio Tajani (@Antonio_Tajani) January 29, 2022
10:07
Italia viva will also vote blank ballot
Italia Viva has decided in the assembly of the great electors to vote a blank ballot on the seventh ballot
10:03
The M5s will vote blank ballot
Even today, it has been learned, the 5-star Movement will continue to vote blank ballots in the vote for the Quirinale.
10:00
I start the seventh session only with Fico, Casellati absent
At the start of the seventh session, only the President Roberto Fico was present to preside over the Chamber. On the other hand, the President of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati was absent. At first he calls some senators in progress, even Fico has left the benches of the presidency, entrusting the ‘guide’ of the session to one of the vice-presidents
09:51
The League towards abstention even at the second call today
The League is not responding to the first call in the seventh vote for the election of the President of the Republic and should abstain on the second call. These are the indications coming from the party in via Bellerio
09:50
Count absent, the majority summit is updated
Matteo Renzi quickly earns the Transatlantic to go and vote. He is upset, as often happens to him in recent days: “We couldn’t get together, we waited in vain for Giuseppe Conte. He was the only one absent”. The leader of Italy Viva refers to the expected majority summit in which an attempt will be made to change the talks between the leaders for the election of the President of the Republic.
“They were all there”, reports Renzi: “Matteo Salvini, Antonio Tajani, Enrico Letta, Roberto Speranza … Only him was missing. I don’t understand”. Maria Elena Boschi passes by, listens to what the senator is saying and lets herself go to a joke: “He must have had judo”.
09:41
It is already the fifth longest election (by Barbara Tedaldi)
With today the election for the President of the Republic of 2022 becomes the fifth longest election in the history of the Republic. The big voters took longer just to choose Giuseppe Saragat (13 days), Giovanni Leone (16 days), Sandro Pertini (10 days) and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (12 days).
Even if the new tenant of the Quirinale were elected today, we would already be on the sixth day, surpassing by duration the election of Antonio Segni, Giorgio Napolitano, first and second term), Sergio Mattarella, Luigi Einaudi, Giovanni Gronchi and the two lightning elections of Francesco Cossiga and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
But crossing precedents and cabal, it can be remembered that in the seventh and eighth ballots no president was ever elected. Without waiting for the 21 and 23 votes that brought Saragat and Leone al Colle, or the sixteen that served to identify Pertini and Scalfaro, whoever was not elected in the fourth or sixth ballot had to wait for the ninth (Segni).
One of the rules of the First Republic, in fact, was that the aftermath of attempted and failed candidacies led inexorably to a screwing up, it is now up to the great voters of 2022 to avoid screwing up and debunking the cabal.
09:27
The Democratic Party opens at the ‘Mattarella bis’ (by Paolo Molinari)
AGI – Without an agreement that holds together the majority of the government and the majority that elects the President of the Republic, “we will support the wisdom of Parliament”. And the wisdom of Parliament is being expressed, in these hours, by voting for the name of Sergio Mattarella.
Enrico Letta announces it at the meeting of the great voters of the Democratic Party, winning applause from groups that, by his own admission, have struggled to understand what was the meaning of the struggle of the leaders between summits, meetings and declarations on TV. “If I had been in your shoes I would have looked at the generals and said what the h … are they doing? But you easily understood that it was all a decisive surplace game because yesterday morning’s result went where it should go “, explained Letta referring to the ‘rejection’ of the Casellati hypothesis, on which the center-right had aimed. game restarted yesterday evening, around the name of Elisabetta Belloni, ‘burned’ by what Leta calls “the Salvini logic”.
The dem secretary, in fact, explains: “We discussed various names, many, from the name of Draghi, to Mattarella, Cartabia, Severino, Belloni and others such as Amato and Casini. started to argue. Then everyone checked out at home, “added Letta. “As soon as this happened Salvini came out with the usual logic of ‘I’m the one who gives the cards’. This created a short circuit even with the Five Stars”.
Today, however, “we start again with a method of confrontation characterized by one more element: the center-right has formally split. Politically it is an essential point”, observes the dem leader for whom “in the discussions within the majority, everything the possible so that the squaring of the circle takes place. The coherence between the government majority, two coalitions and a majority that holds the President of the Republic “.
This is what we will try to do in the majority summit, in which Forza Italia will sit independently from Salvini and the rest of the center-right. “We must try in the discussions within the majority, everything possible so that the squaring of the circle takes place. The coherence between the governing majority, two coalitions and a majority that holds the President of the Republic”, warns Letta.
And if this quadrature is not found, the ball passes to Parliament: “We will try to do this. After that there is the wisdom of Parliament and I believe this is democracy too”. A wisdom that, at the moment, is expressed in numbers: 336, how many votes were for Sergio Mattarella.
09:27
The morning meeting of the League has ended
The League summit ended in Montecitorio. Now Matteo Salvini, we learn, is having contacts with other parties. The majority meeting on the Quirinale will soon begin
Another coffee and at work, the first female President of the Republic would be an extraordinary innovation. #PresidenzaDellaRepubblica pic.twitter.com/uJ7xWVzMQQ
– Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) January 28, 2022
09:17
At the top of the majority Forza Italia will deal “alone”
Antonio Tajani, coordinator of Forza Italia, will participate in the majority summit on the election of the President of the Republic. “We deal alone”, he said, arriving in Montecitorio after having participated in a meeting “with all the forces that refer to the European People’s Party of the center-right”, then “we will try to make a synthesis”
08:59
Salvini: 100% of the League voted for Casellati on the FI proposal
“Forza Italia? I brought 100% of the League’s votes to a Forza Italia proposal and I want to thank President Casellati, who made his position, herself and her professionalism available for the good of the country. 208 League voters voted like that. Others didn’t, but everyone does what they want. ” Thus Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, arriving at Montecitorio
08:56
Read: names “burned” by Salvini’s logic
“We discussed various names, many, from the name of Draghi, to Mattarella, Cartabia, Severino, Belloni and others such as Amato and Casini”. This was explained by the Pd secretary, Enrico Letta, at the meeting of the great Pd electors in progress in the Chamber. “A discussion began around all these names. Then each of them made checks at his home,” added Letta. “As soon as this happened Salvini came out with the usual logic of ‘I’m the one who gives the cards’. This also created a short circuit with the Five Stars”.
08:41
Without a shared name, the League will abstain on the first ballot
Will the League abstain on the first ballot of the day for the election of the President of the Republic if there is no shared name? “Yes, random votes do not make the Parliament look good”. Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, says this, responding to reporters before Montecitorio
08:40
Coordination of Forza Italia with the centrists is underway
Greater coordination starting from the vote on the President of the Republic this morning. It was decided last night during a meeting between Forza Italia coordinator Antonio Tajani, Lorenzo Cesa of the UDC, Maurizio Lupi for Noi for Italy and Giovanni Toti for Coraggio Italia. Together the groups “are worth” more than 180 electors.
08:34
Salvini: I would like the first female president to be elected
“I would like this somewhat dancing Parliament to elect the first female President of the Republic”. Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, says so when he arrives at Montecitorio. “I don’t have an X profile, I have my idea and you will vote for a woman, but no one is self-sufficient and unfortunately someone plays the no. I made fifteen proposals now I’m silent – he adds – I have at least three names to bear”
08:29
Read: We are big voters not big tweeters
“Each of us in here plays his role as a great voter and not a great tweeter. The future of the country depends on these choices.” This was said by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, opening the proceedings of the meeting of the great electors of the Democratic Party to the Chamber.
“For success, our logic ‘there must not be a winner’ needs to prevail. Not everyone understands it. And not understanding it means not understanding that the key to the problem lies only with an agreement between everyone,” he added. .
08:28
Tajani: we will participate in the majority summit
“We will participate in the majority summit” requested by the Democratic Party and the Leu “to try to confront and find a solution, the broadest possible” for the Quirinale. Antonio Tajani said so, arriving at Montecitorio
