Francesco Saverio Marini, Max Luciani, Robert Cassinelli e Maria Alessandra Sandulli. The have finally been elected new constitutional judges. The white smoke on the Consults It arrived with an agreement between the parties after 14 votes for one judge and 5 for the other three.
Consultation: here are the new constitutional judges
Once the required quorum of three fifths was reached, the Parliament in joint session elected the 4 Constitutional Court judges missing. Below is the result of the vote: Max Luciani, professor emeritus of Public Law at La Sapienza University of Rome, obtained 505 votes; Robert Cassinelli, former parliamentarian and lawyer, 503 votes; Maria Alessandra Sandulli, jurist and full professor at Roma Tre, 502 votes; Francesco Saverio Marini, legal advisor to Palazzo Chigi, 500 votes. Also receiving votes were Deputy Minister of Justice and Forza Italia representative Francesco Paolo Sisto (4 preferences) and Forza Italia Senator Pierantonio Zanettin (5 votes). The outcome of the vote was announced and the elected representatives proclaimed by the President of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana.
Consultation: White smoke after negotiations between parties during the night
Some details about the Chamber: those present and those voting 539, no abstentions, 6 votes lost, 10 blank ballots, 4 invalid ballots. Looking through the tables of the vote of the Parliament in joint session, there are no significant absences in terms of numbers in any group, whether majority or opposition: deputies and senators responded to the "party order" to all be present for today's vote.
It must be said that the eve of the new vote in Parliament had been marked by confrontations between the leaders of the centre-right and close contacts between the majority and the opposition. Closing the issue of the judges of the Consulta (as well as the need to find a solution to unblock the tangle of migrant centers in Albania) was among the government's main dossiers, with negotiations that dragged on into the night.
Consultation: is the Rai game reopening?
But at this point there are also those who wonder whether the agreement on the Consulta could open a glimmer of hope for the new Rai top management. The opposition is not filtering out optimistic forecasts, on the contrary. In the morning, however, the deputy prime minister and leader of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani had hoped for an agreement and then underlined, after a face to face with Nicola Fratoianni: “Simone Agnes she is a person of guarantee, if I were a leftist I would vote for her...". But theimpasse on the name of the president in pectore, which blocks the entire mechanism of the renewal of the seventh floor of Viale Mazzini, at the moment does not appear to be overcome.
