Elections: Parolin hopes that the tone will fade

(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 20 - Vatican secretary of state Pietro Parolin hoped that "the tone of the electoral campaign will fade" and that "the blessed of the country will be put first": He said it himself, answering a question from Italian journalists on the sidelines of a prize awarded to premier Mario Draghi in New York.

"What I can say is that the tones of the campaign are dying down, as the Papar has said recently" and that "the good of the country and the needs of the people are put first," he said.

"If you make this effort - he added - here then the tones fade, there are no longer those contradictions that are highlighted. Then the needs of the people are concretely served, the needs that exist and what we can hope is that it goes well for the upcoming elections,