Third black smoke but the white ballots drop to 412
and the name of Sergio Mattarella
goes up a lot, reaching 125 preferences, despite the absence of any indications of the parties' vote.
On the eve of the crucial transition to voting with an absolute majority, Thursday drops to half plus one, Parliament launches the first signs of impatience with the political forces that still seem to be paralyzed by fear and blocked by crossed vetoes.
Beyond Mattarella's "flight", the unease of the parliamentarians can also be read in the excellent result of Crosetto who reaches 114 consensus going well beyond the package of 63 electors in the hands of the Brothers of Italy who - unique among the parties - he had declared that he was voting for it.
While the very active Matteo Salvini has consulted with Berlusconi who is still hospitalized at San Raffaele, Giorgia Meloni presses Salvini and explicitly asks that tomorrow they vote for one of the three names of the squad, namely Carlo Nordio, Letizia Moratti and Marcello Pera.
Those that come out of Montecitorio are indications that should not be underestimated in a stalemate and that suggests that there will be no white smoke tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the whirlwind of contacts between leaders and above all internal consultations with parliamentary groups continues.
The day was opened by the sharp "No" of Enrico Letta and Giuseppe Conte to the name of Elisabetta Casellati who during the night was turned tumultuous. The Casellati option "blows everything up", the secretary of the Democratic Party cut short, making it clear that with her at the Colle the government would have fallen immediately. But the Senate President's card still remains in the League Secretary's deck who continues to show optimism.
But the pressure of the Brothers of Italy for a decision is insistent: "we will do everything to ensure that tomorrow there is a single name of the center-right", explains Ignazio La Russa for Fratelli d'Italia.
Among the signs of novelty there is the entry on the scene of Pier Ferdinando Casini who collects 52 preferences on the eve of the descent of the quorum.
In fact, time passes and at the moment the only move that could move the political picture would be that of a tear of the center-right in an attempt to get one candidate to pass with a few votes.
What is certain is that no one, with the exception of Giorgia Meloni, wants to go and vote and the big electors are making this fear explicit.
In Parliament there is a great desire for Mattarella, the only one who would guarantee Draghi's stay in Palazzo Chigi.