The insistence with which everyone, from Enrico Letta (“never seen a president chosen in advance”) to the minister 5S D’Incà and the blue Mara Carfagna, postpone the theme even today at the beginning of January, says a lot about the fact that at the moment no one sees the key to the problem.
Rome – About two months after the election of the new President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella’s step back to the encore it extinguishes the hopes of many and questions everyone about what to do about a game that already promises to be extremely difficult: neither side has an absolute majority of the 1008 electors to elect their candidate in the fourth ballot. And the spirit that hovers does not sound like a hand extended to a 360-degree confrontation: “We are working to have a President who is not owned by the Democratic Party but represents everyone”, explains Matteo Salvini.
The insistence with which everyone, from Enrico Letta (“never seen a president chosen in advance”) to the minister 5S D’Incà and the blue Mara Carfagna, postpone the theme again today at the beginning of January, It says a lot about the fact that at the moment no one sees the key to the problem. And the appeal, made today by Minister Speranza, for a confrontation “as broad as possible” between the parties is based on the accounts that photograph the next assembly that will vote for the President of the Republic. In fact, neither of the two camps is ‘self-sufficient’ to reach the 505 votes needed to elect their candidate – on the fourth ballot. And what makes the assembly balkanized is also the fact that Parliament was born on the wave of the great M5S victory which, however, has crumbled over the years: just think that the 5s parliamentarians at the beginning of the legislature were 338 and now they have remained, including changes of shirts and new groups, 233.
A large number of elected officials therefore do not respond to any party indication and it is difficult to take them for certain in a calculation of majorities. The center-right can count on 450 electors (451 but the president of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Casellati, in quota Fi, does not vote) who refer to the parties within the coalition: 197 are from the League, 126 from Fi, 58 from Fdi, 31 from Courage Italia-Cambiamo-Idea, 5 of Us with Italy, to which are added the 33 regional delegates. The center-left with M5s can count on 419 votes (there are 420 but the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico does not vote) if Iv is excluded, out of 462 if Renzi’s party is also counted. The Democratic Party has 133 major voters (Gualtieri, the new mayor of Rome will have to opt and therefore perhaps his seat will be vacant at the time of the Colle election), M5s has 232, Leu 18, Action / + Europe 5, Bruno Tabacci’s Democratic Center has 6 deputies. To this block are added the 24 regional delegates, plus Gianclaudio Bressa, enrolled in the group for Autonomies but elected with the Democratic Party. Among the 1008 there are the 6 senators for life: Giorgio Napolitano, Mario Monti, Liliana Segre, Elena Cattaneo, Renzo Piano, Carlo Rubbia. And the Autonomies: The group of linguistic autonomies-minorities has 4 deputies and 5 senators, whose group in Palazzo Madama, in addition to Bressa, includes Pier Ferdinando Casini (Centristi per Europa) and the senators for life Cattaneo and Napolitano.
Then there is the corpaccione of the mixed group with some policy areas responding to themselves. In this legislature, the Mixed group of Chamber and Senate has risen and changed according to the birth of new members: the largest group is the former M5s patrol of “Alternative There” which for the votes of the Quirinale has 19 major voters, Action / + Europa-Radicali (5), Democratic Center (6 deputies), Maie (3 deputies, 3 senators), FaciamoEco (3 deputies), Nci (5 deputies). Then there is in the Mixed in the Senate LeU (6) and many M5s exits (24 in the Chamber who are not enrolled in any component together with the former Leu Michela Rostan while at Palazzo Madama there are 15 former M5s, the 3 former 5s now Italexit and 1 former 5s now Potere al Popolo ).
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