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The former Italian prime minister has not obtained the necessary support to opt for the head of state.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi considering giving up running as a candidate for the Head of State since he has not convinced the number of parliamentarians he needs and is “quite sad”, A collaborator of his declared this Tuesday. Next Monday the Parliament will meet in a joint session -630 deputies, 320 senators and 58 regional delegates- to renew the president for the next 7 years, since the term of the current one ends on February 3, Sergio Mattarella.
“Yesterday I was quite sad,” the deputy and historian confessed to Radio RAI Vittorio Sgarbi, who these days is helping Berlusconi to convince deputies and senators to vote for him for the post of President of the Republic. Berlusconi had obtained the support of the main parties of the right, his, Come on Italy, the extreme right League and Brothers of Italy, from Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, rspecifically, and other small conservative formations. But to be elected head of state, you need the two-thirds of parliament or an absolute majority from the fourth vote and, as the tycoon does not add enough seats, he was calling parliamentarians from the Mixed Group to win their favor.
Need a hundred props
However, Sgarbi, who has helped him in this mission, explained that Berlusconi is already aware that he will not succeed, because he needs at least a hundred votes, and right now look for “a dignified exit” thinking of the name of a candidate of your liking. This situation arises after yesterday his ally Salvini issued an ultimatum and gave him time until Sunday to calculate his support and announce his candidacy, otherwise he would launch the name of another candidate on Monday.
The truth is that the name of Berlusconi, supported by the right-wing alliance in a statement, was a major stumbling block in a process, that of the election of the head of state, for which the right and left blocks must bring postures closer, because none adds up to the quorum by itself.
And neither the left, headed by the Democratic Party, nor the Five Star Movement, of “anti-caste” origins, did not even want to hear about the tycoon as president of the Republic, due to his record of excesses, controversies and sentences. It is expected that between tomorrow and Thursday the right-wing alliance will meet in Rome to square a new strategy, a Plan B, in the name of Berlusconi.
left wing candidate
The leader of 5 Star Movement (M5S), Giuseppe Conte, and the general secretary of the Partido Demócrata (PD), Enrico Letta, met today to agree on a common candidate for the presidency of the Republic, and thus stop Berlusconi’s candidacy.
“An excellent meeting. We will work together to give the country a good president in whom we can all recognize ourselves. We are open to dialogue. No one can have priority over the right to preference,” Conte and Letta wrote on Twitter, as well as the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranzaprogressive party leader Article One and also present at the meeting. The “summit” held in the Roman house of the leader of the M5S shows the alliance of these three formations, which, in any case, will have to count on more political forces, such as that of Matteo Renzi’s party, Italy Viva, to oppose the name of Silvio Berlusconi.
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“The meeting went well. We are ready for strong action, even for a broad and shared confrontation. Obviously, biased candidates like Berlusconi’s will be removed from the table,” Conte said after the meeting. And although he specified that there are no names yet, he added: “There will be proposals later when we have a confrontation with the other forces.”
These political forces were already allied in the Government until the march of Renzi’s Italia Viva, which was what led the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, to put a technocrat like Mario Draghi in power in the face of the health emergency and economic crisis that he was going through. the country. The veto of Berlusconi’s candidacy, so far, is the only common point established by the three leaders, while Letta also assured that there will be contacts with the center-right in the coming days.
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