ROME. Another day of voting for the Quirinale: the appointment is at 11 in the House for the fourth call, which requires the majority of votes plus one (therefore 505 and no longer 673 as for the first three ballots). At 8.30 Matteo Salvini convened a summit with the center-right allies to decide the common strategy after yesterday Giorgia Meloni imposed the name of Guido Crosetto – who collected 114 votes – and with the center left the square on the name of Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, the president of the Senate, ace in the hole of the leader of the Carroccio: the secretary dem Enrico Letta has in fact stopped his candidacy, as well as the Five Star Movement. Meanwhile, the name of Pier Ferdinando Casini takes up again and collects, as the exponent dem Andrea Marcucci says in an interview with “Il Messaggero”, also the favor of the Democratic Party. “I declared in unsuspecting times that Casini is a candidate possessing many of those indispensable characteristics in this political phase of national unity: it is an attestation that I would confirm today”.
Another name that remains on the table is that of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who would have the support of the Democratic Party but who, as Letta recalled, was rejected by the center-right. And, finally, the option of Elisabetta Belloni also remains. director general of the information security department. A super partes profile, which would not mind the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, and the president of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, and which would also have the support of the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio. Belloni, in fact, was secretary general at the Farnesina with Di Maio, before moving on to Dis, taking the place of Gennaro Vecchione, a man wanted by Conte, before the natural expiry of his mandate. At the time of the events, the Vecchione-Belloni change, wanted by the premier, Mario Draghi, had irritated Conte himself. But a convergence on Belloni is struggling to take off. Within the same broad coalition that supports the government, in fact, there would be more than one doubt about the CEO of Dis. In particular, within the Lega and Forza Italia, but also of a part of the Democratic Party, Italia viva and Leu, who would have pointed out the difficulty of choosing an element of great value for the Quirinale but that comes from the Services. The negotiation, therefore, goes on but the road is uphill.
The summit of the center-right
The summit of the center-right has been convened for 8.30, postponed from last night. “We have never vetoed anyone, I do not see the same politeness on the part of others: in a democracy everyone is entitled to be head of state. There is neither victory nor defeat for anyone. The center-right candidate has faded, like that of the center-left, “said the coordinator of Fi, Antonio Tajani, arriving at the top of the center-right and adding that” a meeting of the great Forza Italia voters will be held at 10 “. Tajani then reassured about Silvio Berlusconi’s health conditions: «He’s fine, I explained the situation to him. Now we will evaluate ». Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini, entering the summit, guarantees: “I work for a center-right proposal.” And on the role of Mario Draghi, once again the leader of the League reiterated that «it is precious where it is. I don’t play games on Palazzo Chigi ». And he goes back to the names, which also came out of the center-left area: “Names are not mentioned in the newspapers, no one is right on the left”. Again, on the name of Pier Ferdinando Casini, the leader of the Carroccio remembers that “he was elected with the Democratic Party”. While on the three names on the table – Belloni, Draghi and Casini, he commented with a “I read many interesting names, which are not center-right”. – And he re-launched: «We have some top-notch names. I do not think that the center-right, which represents tens of millions of Italians, should prove anything to anyone and that only on the left there are moral, institutional profiles capable of aspiring to the highest office in the state. The main road always remains the one that the numbers and popular consensus and thirty years of political history ask of us. The left has been proposing, disposing and imposing on the Quirinale for thirty years ».
Times of election
“I believe it will not close today, but it will close tomorrow.” To say the leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi, on Radio Leopolda.
Pinwheel of meetings
According to what has been learned, a meeting of the great M5S voters is scheduled for 10.20.