Who will be the new president of Italy? Will it be Mario Draghi, the current prime minister, or Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati?
The two names are the most popular at the moment to occupy the position of 13th president of the Italian Republic.
Still without an agreement between the parties, the Italian Parliament will hold this Friday (28) the fifth vote to elect the next president of the Republic.
In the first four votes, the main parties advised a blank vote or abstention, but the right-wing coalition decided to change its stance this Friday and vote for the president of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, from the party Força Itália (FI), of Silvio Berlusconi.
Born in Rovigo, party father e primary teacher mother, Maria Elisabetta Alberti studied law in Padua and later specialized in canon law at the Pontifical Lateran University. University researcher and matrimonial lawyer in the city of Santo, she married her colleague Giambattista Casellati, with whom she had two children, Ludovica and Alvise.
In Forza Italia since its foundation, she was elected to Parliament for the first time in 1994. After a five-year break, she returned to the Senate in 2001 and was appointed deputy leader of Silvio Berlusconi's party group, to which she is very close. .
“A woman from the institutions in Quirinale. It’s an honor to nominate her,” wrote Matteo Salvini on Facebook. Italy has never had a female president in 75 years of republic.
The electoral college is made up of 1.009 members, 630 deputies, 321 senators and 58 regional delegates, but no political field has the 505 votes needed to elect the next president alone.
In theory, Casellati could get approximately 450 votes, but a result above that number would strengthen the right-wing alliance in the negotiations. However, if it falls below, the coalition between Salvini, Meloni and Berlusconi would be weakened.
On the other hand, a possible victory for the president of the Senate despite the center-left and the M5S would cause a rupture in the Draghi government and could even lead Italy to early legislative elections. “If Casellati passes, the legislature ends,” wrote deputy Alessandro Zan, from the Democratic Party (PD), on Twitter.
O grupo de center-left intends guide voting in Mario Draghi.
It looks like it's going to be a hot day in Rome.
With information from Ansa
