The League announces Lorenzo Fontana as a candidate for the Presidency of the Italian Parliament ahead of the fourth vote

Oct. 13 () –

The Italian far-right League party announced this Thursday Lorenzo Fontana, former vice president of the Italian Parliament, as a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber for the fourth vote after confirming the parliamentary spokesman for his party, Riccardo Molinari, in his position.

“I feel full of responsibility. Let’s see tomorrow. Never put the cart before the horse,” Fontana said before the new vote that will be held on Friday morning after up to three votes have been carried out in the Parliament without success, according to the news agency AdnKronos.

In this way, the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, has preferred to leave Molinari in his position, “despite having all the credentials to be president of the Chamber”, and has opted for Fontana, who was vice president of the Italian Parliament in 2018.

After having counted up to 357 blank votes, the fourth vote in Parliament will be held with the quorum reduced to an absolute majority, starting at 10:30 am on Friday, according to the newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’.

In parallel, the Italian senators have elected this Thursday as president of the Upper House Ignazio La Russa, one of the founders of Brothers of Italy and who exhibited in an interview four years ago a room in which he kept relics of the dictatorship, including a figure of Benito Mussolini.

La Russa was elected with 116 votes, in a first political victory for Giorgia Meloni’s party which, however, has been marred by the rudeness of Forza Italia, which has symbolically shown its apparent discomfort with the management of the negotiations to distribute charge.