BALLOTS FAIL
No Italian President fN Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ROME, Dec. 23. Parliament tonight ended an unprecedented full week of voting for a new Italian President, failing again on the twelfth ballot and remaining as tightly dead-locked as ever. The Christian Democrat, Mr Viovanni Leone, the leader in all previous ballots, received his highest number of votes yet but was still considerably short of the needed 482 majority. He moved ahead in the eleventh ballot earlier today when his Christian Democrat rival, Dr. Amintore Fanfani, pulled out of the race.
In tonight’s vote, Leone was followed once more by the Communist candidate, Mr Umberto Terracini. The veteran Socalist Party leader, Mr Pietro Nenni, was third. In the twelfth ballot voting was: Leone, 382, 401; Terracini, 252, 250; Nenni, 98, 104; Senator Aleide Malacugni, Socialists of proletarian Unity, 36, 35; Amintore Fanfani, Christian Democrat, 17, 4. There were no abstentions.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30632, 24 December 1964, Page 11
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