ROME (Reuters) - Italy's parliament failed to elect a state president in its second vote on Thursday, with most members of both the centre-left and centre-right blocs appearing to have cast blank ballots.
With the count still continuing it was already clear that no candidate could reach the required 672 votes for a two-thirds majority of the 1007 parliamentarians and regional representatives.
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