From Count Mascetti to Professor Sassaroli, his 'gypsy companion' in 'Amici My', passing through Fiorello, Lino Banfi and Giancarlo Magalli, the former coach of the Trapattoni national football team and Paulo Roberto Falcao, up to Cetto La Qualunque, historian character from Antonio Albanese up to the porn star Rocco Siffredi.
The 'joke votes' have always marked the counting of the ballot papers for the President of the Republic
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'Dispersed' votes, as they are aseptically cataloged in the report of the count drawn up by the officials of the Chamber of Deputies, but which each time arouse laughter, surprise and even applause in the Chamber where an attempt is made to elect the new Head of State.
The joke votes come above all when an agreement is not in sight to elect the new tenant of the Colle:
that is, practically always in the first three ballots
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It is there that the fantasy of the 'Great electors' is unleashed, in some cases even stalkerized by someone who, known or not, hearing his name written on the ballot read by the President of the Chamber has his second of notoriety in the Hemicycle and in the Nation at that time connected to unified networks.
And there, disparate consents arrive: for the porn actor Rocco Siffredi as Sergio de Caprio, the 'Last Captain' who arrested Totò Riina.
But the imagination of the big voters is normally exercised with the names of the showbiz.
And then, votes are wasted for personalities from the world of entertainment, from cinema to TV, sports and fashion: Barbara D'Urso, Valeria Marini, Sabrina Ferilli, Sophia Loren, Miuccia Prada and Santo Versace, Michele Cocuzza, Ezio Greggio and Enzo Iacchetti, Gianni Rivera and Giancarlo Antognoni, Francesco Guccini, are some of those who were among the most popular in the past.
The astrophysicists Margherita Hack and Don Luigi Ciotti of Libera received citations.
Among the journalists also Pasquale Laurito, the dean of the parliamentary press author of the 'Velina Rossa', the editor of Il Giornale Augusto Minzolini, Claudio Sabelli Fioretti, Paolo Mieli and Giuliano Ferrara.