Italy Blank vote in the first round: Italy slows down the election of president
Italy Italy chooses president with all players hiding their cards
In Italian politics, the path chosen is never the straightest, the clearest or the simplest. This Tuesday, the joint session of the Parliament and the Senate, together with 58 regional delegates, met for the second consecutive day and voted, by hand,
with the aim of
electing the next President of the Republic
. Any candidate needs, in the first three rounds, the support of two thirds of the 1,008 major voters, 673 votes, but the result, once again, has been negative, with 527 blank votes. In any other place
, two failed attempts would generate tensions, concern, but in Rome it is not normal,
but it is part of the staging, of the ritual.
No one was paying attention to the screens, to the count, to the list of crazy names from the world of entertainment and sports,
because the show was in the interior rooms
, behind closed doors.
The best example of the irrelevance of the formal process is that the centre-right, the strongest bloc and the one with all the ballots to clearly impose itself in the elections scheduled for next year, only bothered to present its list of candidates to the 4:30 p.m., when the voting process had been going on for a long time.
The day was key, but not because of the ballots,
because the black smoke was guaranteed
.
The second round (with the current president Mattarella and judge Paolo Maddalena again being the most repeated on the ballots) was of no interest to anyone.
A waste of time, or rather a way to gain it
. If on Monday the playing field was delimited, on Tuesday the rules began to be set. The right presented two men and one woman: Pera, Nordio and Moratti, philosophers, magistrates, regional leaders after weeks announcing high-level profiles. The center left of Enrico Letta received them respectfully, applauding, knowing all that it was part of a paripé and that they do not lead anywhere. Cinque Stelle dismissed them with a flourish. It did not matter.
In this shell game you don't have to follow the ball, but look at the hands
.
The game begins to be resolved on Thursday,
when the rules change and 'only' it takes a majority of 505 votes
to tip the balance.
No block arrives by itself, but after discarding the impossible, among what remains, however impossible it may seem, will be the solution.
Mario Draghi's name does not appear officially in the pools
, he hardly has any public champions, and those who mention him on the right are only saying that he should continue where he is, in Palazzo Chigi, at the head of the Council of Ministers.
And yet, that the groups propose names, that the skirmishes continue and that he remains covered is ironically the clearest symptom that his candidacy is gaining strength.
Ahead of a Franco Frattini or Pier Luigi Casani, waiting for the clouds to clear.
Nothing is done, and all parties know it.
Because not only the president is deciding, but the future government, something unprecedented since the Second World War.
One token move will precipitate the others, and the parts aren't ready yet
.
The alleged critics say that Draghi is necessary where he is, but they do not explain what they expect in just a few months, when Italians go to the polls and the superbanker retires.
Its defenders, on the other hand, maintain that the country needs more stability than ever, and the only way to guarantee it, and a certain balance when Salvini or Giorgia Meloni are in charge of an Executive, is with Draghi in the Quirinale as a counterweight.
From Draghi's environment they explain that he is calm, as always.
The key player these days, they say, is Matteo Salvini
, the leader of the Lega. He is the one who can most easily decide the situation, since he is practically the only leader who controls his forces. Berlusconi's Forza Italia is divided, and more so after the resignation of a
Cavaliere
in precarious state of health.
Letta speaks for the hard core of the Democratic Party, but that's not saying much.
Cinque Stelle is divided and it is necessary to negotiate with Grillo, Giuseppe Conte, Di Maio or Fico to try to understand what their pawns will vote for.
So Salvini, motor of the right, is the one who monopolizes the looks.
"We do not want the War of the Two Roses. Enough of tactics and we find a solution. We would have to lock ourselves in a room and throw away the key until we have a name,"
Letta urged, multiplying the similes with the Vatican elections
explaining why their own have not even bothered to offer an alternative list of names, while maintaining that they will never endorse that of their rivals.
The specter of early elections hangs over and no one except Fratelli D'Italia is ready for them and their consequences.
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