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Italian parties forced to declare truce, elect Scalfaro president
ROME. May 20. Shock waves from a Mafia bomb forced Italy's squabbling par Ues to declare a truce and elect Christian democrat vet cran Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. a de voul Catholic, as the country s ninth president, reports Reuter.
Politicians breathed a sigh of relief. It took them 10 be I lots oyer nearly two weeks to find a president
Scalfaro, 73. won by a wide margin on Monday after the three largest political parlies, buffeted by the weekend mur der of Italy s top anti-Mafia fighter, united behind him and enlisted the support of several other parties.
"(The election) has been tormented process which has ended tn the best of ways," said Arnaldo Forlani, who re signed as Christian Democrat party secretary after his own candidacy failed.
Scalfaro. a farmer Interior Minister, polled 672 votes of the 1,002 votes cast in a Joint session of the Italian parlia ment ■ far more than the 508 needed for election.
Ml’s hailed Scalfaru as a man of moral rigour who would breathe new life into the flag glng political system. A devout Catholic, he is best known for his conversations with the vir gin Mary mother of Jesus Christ. They arc a way of communicating,' he once said
The election ended the power vacuum created by the resignation of President Francesco Cos sigs on April 28 and cleared Ihe way for the formation of a new govern -
Scalfaru won wide respect with a moving tribute on Sun day to anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, killed with his wife and three bodyguards by a Mafia bomb that blew up a
huge chunk of a Sicilian mo lorway over the weekend.
Falcone's funeral in the Si < than capital Palermo on Mon day turned into an angry protest against Rome pollti elans
Relatives of the victims screamed for justice over their flag draped coffins In church and a huge crowd outside repeatedly shouted “buffoons', 'shame' and 'mafiosi' at the country's political leaders
The tortuous voting process began on May 13. marred by a punch-up between rival parliamentarians on the first day. The voting rules were later changed because of cheating.
Seal faro, elected for a seven-year mandate, will first have to name a new government to replace the caretaker cabinet of Primer Minister Giulio Andreotti, who resigned on April 24 after tn conclusive general elections earlier In the
month.
He Is expected to try to build on the broad political consensus that made his election possible, to form an emergency government charged with combating Ihe Mafia and redressing Italy's desperate public finances.
Despite Scalfaro’s election, a new government did not appear to be around the corner. Under Italys complicated po lltlcal rules, the president cannot begin formal consulta Hons on naming a new Prime-Minister until Scalfaro's successor as speaker has been chosen
Royalists said Scalfaro was the next best thing to having a king In the presidential Quirt nale palace "Sadly, we needed the new Mafia massacre in Palermo to revive the Italian parliament, said Sergio Boso ulcro, spokesman for a royalist movement.