Prodi rejected soundly, even below the threshold of 400 votes, Cancellieri a little above expectations (proposal and numbers in hand actually voted by Monti's Civic Choice), but the real surprise - in addition to the multitude of dispersed votes (more than 10 given to Massimo D'Alema…) who favored the flop of the Democratic Party candidate – is the result of Stefano Rodotà, candidate of Grillo's 5 Star Movement but well beyond the vote threshold of the Grillini: 213 the total, even about fifty in more than the big 5 Star voters.
Thus ended the fourth vote for the President of the Republic, the first in which an absolute majority of the members of the two Chambers was sufficient (504 votes), but the new Head of State did not emerge this time either. We will try again on Saturday morning at 10 with the fifth vote, but in the meantime the Democratic Party collects the second debacle in two days: after the Marini flop, not even Prodi (whose chances were in the balance anyway, given that Pdl and Lega did not participate in the ballot and in any case other votes were needed in addition to those of the centre-left) manages to obtain the consensus necessary to go up to Colle.
The former prime minister, however, should remain in the field: the idea that is currently winding its way through the corridors of Montecitorio is that in Saturday's votes on the founder of the Ulivo the consensus of Civic Choice, which up to now has supported the candidacy of Anna Maria Cancellieri. Another signal could instead be that of a surprise candidacy by D'Alema, who would not be so unwelcome to the centre-right and who already in today's vote has collected several votes from snipers. Rodotà is confirmed as the winning card of the M5S and perhaps even beyond: it was probably Sel who gave that handful of extra votes that make the former Privacy Guarantor a name that does not lose any appeal. "We continue to vote for Rodotà", confirmed the group leader Vittorio Crimi.
