Italian parliament fails to elect state president

Worldwide, Daily news | | April 18, 2013 20:47

Italy’s parliament failed to elect a new state president in its first vote on Thursday, with deep splits in the center left torpedoing a quick victory for its official candidate Franco Marini.
Marini, a former Senate speaker, won 521 votes, well below the required two-thirds majority of 672 of the 1,007 electors, comprising members of both houses of parliament and regional representatives.
A second ballot will be held later on Thursday and two votes a day will continue through the weekend if necessary.
Many rebellious center-left parliamentarians voted in the secret ballot for academic Stefano Rodota, candidate of the populist 5-Star Movement of former comic Beppe Grillo.
Rodota won more than 240 votes and there were also more than 100 blank or spoilt ballots.

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