意大利贝尔萨尼和贝卢斯科尼会谈总统选举
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ROME, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Talks between Italy's center-left party head Pier1 Luigi Bersani and center-right counterpart Silvio Berlusconi about the candidate for the next president and other issues will continue after their first meeting held on Tuesday.
"It was a good meeting to clarify the
criteria2 for identifying together a list of persons who can represent the country's unity," Deputy Secretary of Bersani's Democratic Party (PD) Enrico Letta said after the meeting.
Though the talks between PD and Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) were "just at the beginning," they were fundamental at a time of great divisions to share a "strong responsibility" over the president's choice, he said.
"It is necessary to make all attempts to have a president elected with a broad
consensus3... I think there will be more meetings with PdL," Letta added.
PdL Secretary Angelino Alfano shared the view that there will be other talks between the two strongest forces and longstanding opponents in parliament "to make every effort to ensure sharing over a choice so delicate and important."
Alfano said in a statement that Berlusconi has
reiterated4 his willingness to do "what is useful to Italy" and the next president must be a person of "unquestionable prestige and recognized institutional
competence5." However no names were put
forth6 during the meeting, he
noted7.
President Giorgio Napolitano, 87, whose seven-year term ends on May 15, has been struggling to end the
impasse8 in the formation of Italy's new government after the Feb. 24-25 inconclusive elections.
Italian presidents, whose role is mostly ceremonial but includes powers such as naming the
premier9, are not allowed to dissolve parliament in the final months of their
mandate10. Napolitano has ruled out an early resignation that would allow his successor to call for fresh general voting.
The new president will be elected by parliament in a
joint11 session starting from April 18. A two-third vote is required on any of the first three rounds of
balloting12, after which a majority suffices.
The meeting came after Napolitano suggested that political parties should have the "courage" to reach an alliance for the good of the recession-hit country.
The remarks followed Bersani's reiterated refusal to consider a broad
coalition13 with Berlusconi who had offered his support in return, among other issues, for selecting the next president.
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