Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi
said Thursday that he expects to have a say in nominations for
the next Italian president.
The issue is gaining attention amid reports that President
Giorgio Napolitano, 89, is considering stepping down from the
post early in the new year.
Berlusconi said in a published interview that he expects a
"shared path" in choosing nominees with centre-left Premier
Matteo Renzi, to ensure the list "is not only an expression of
the left".
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Berlusconi
suggested selecting presidential nominees is linked to other
government reforms.
Renzi said on Wednesday suggested that no one party will
dominate the list of possible candidates.
Instead, he said, the list of nominees "will be left to the
Parliament to decide on, but the names are to be given the
broadest possible consensus".
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