Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Napolitano is re-elected as Italian President

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected as President for one more term.

taly’s electoral college failed to elect his successor in five rounds of voting. This is the first time in the history of the Italian Republic that a President has been elected to two successive terms. He needed 504 votes of the 1007 grand electors, or 51.5 per cent, to win. The quorum was reached early morning after a day fraught with uncertainly.

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