(ANSA) - Rome, January 19 - More than three-quarters of
Italians want a woman president, according to a poll released on
Monday by Ixè for the Rai 3 program Agorà.
Three possible female candidates are being talked about for
the post recently vacated by 89-year-old Giorgio Napolitano, who
stepped down last Wednesday.
Marta Cartabia, 52, is a magistrate and currently vice
president of Italy's Constitutional Court, one of two supreme
courts in Italy, the other being the Court of Cassation.
Anna Finocchiaro, 60, is a Senator with Italian Premier
Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party (PD), and was minister for equal
opportunities under Romano Prodi's government.
Roberta Pinotti, 54, is Italy's minister of defence, and
was previously a Senator for the PD, as well as a former member
of the lower house of parliament for the Democrats of the Left,
which merged into the PD in 2007.
77% want woman president, poll says
Three women touted as possible choices