Italy's parties look to female presidential candidate after rightist flop

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Italy moved closer on Friday to electing its first ever female president after five days of stalemate in repeated parliamentary ballots forced party leaders to seek a compromise solution.

Political sources said a likely candidate was Elisabetta Belloni, a career diplomat who heads the secret services, with Justice Minister Marta Cartabia also in the reckoning.

"I am very happy that the other political forces are also showing that they want to agree on a high-level female profile," he wrote on Twitter. Centre-right leaders from the League, Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy infuriated their opponents earlier on Friday when they ordered their lawmakers to vote for conservative Senate speaker Elisabetta Casellati in the day's first ballot rather than seek a consensus candidate.

"You don't go from the secret service to the Quirinale. Those who don't understand this have no institutional culture," former prime minister Matteo Renzi said on Facebook, announcing that his small Italia Viva party would never vote for her.

 

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