ROME (Reuters) - Italy's divided parliament began voting for a new state president on Thursday, with the centre-left alliance led by Pier Luigi Bersani deeply split over the choice of former Senate speaker Franco Marini as their candidate.
Bersani nominated Marini, a prominent Catholic and former head of the moderate CISL union, in order to forge a broad accord on the presidency with centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi and the small centrist grouping of caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti.
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