Black smoke in the Chamber also in the third vote for the election of the president
.
No one has reached the required quorum of 2/3 of the voters, to trigger the election.
A new vote will be needed, the fourth, tomorrow morning at 10.30: in
that case the quorum drops: the election will start with an absolute majority.
Lorenzo Fontana
, deputy secretary of the League and several times minister, would be in pole position for the presidency of the Chamber.
ANSA learns this from various parliamentary sources.
"I don't know anything, I know about Giorgetti at Juventus and I at Verona
. "
The deputy secretary of the Lega
Lorenzo Fontana
replied with a joke to those who asked him about the hypothesis of his election to the presidency of the Chamber.
"It is still in the making, the night is long", he added then, before heading to the offices of the Lega Group in the Chamber, as well as various other Northern League deputies including Riccardo Molinari, Federico Freni, Claudio Durigon and Massimo Bitonci.
The provisional president of the Chamber Ettore Rosato opened the first session of the Chamber of the XIX, which has therefore officially begun.
The Chamber of the Chamber paid a standing ovation to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella when the interim president thanked him in his introductory speech.
A softer applause to the former president Roberto Fico.
New standing ovations in the Chamber of Deputies when the provisional president Ettore Rosato wished Liliana Segre, now provisional president of the Senate, and quoted Pope Francis.