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By FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press ROME (AP) Italy's polarized Parliament failed in a second day of balloting Friday to elect a president, as the high-profile candidacy of ex-Premier Romano Prodi fell far short of the votes needed. The rebuff deepened the political paralysis gripping the eurozone's third-largest economy. Prodi, the only politician to defeat media mogul Silvio Berlusconi for the premier's office, was the center-left latest choice to be Italy's next head of state, replacing President Giorgio Napolitano, whose 7-year term expires next month. Berlusconi bitterly opposed the bid to tap Prodi, a onetime arch-rival who had defeated him twice for the premiership. The president's duties include tapping someone to try to form Italy's next government and end two months of political gridlock. Berlusconi ordered his forces to boycott the vote Friday afternoon, and they did. In the latest fourth round of balloting, Prodi garnered 395 votes, far short of the 504 simple majority needed. In theory, it should have been easier for Parliament to elect a president, because the previous three rounds of voting had required a two-thirds majority. But center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, who was frustrated in forming a government following inconclusive nationwide elections in February, was humiliated again. He failed to draw enough support outside his bloc to rally behind the widely-respected Prodi, a former European Union commission president,cheap toms shoes sale. A fifth round of voting was scheduled for Saturday. "I think Prodi's candidacy is finished," said Matteo Renzi, an upstart rival of Bersani in his Democratic Party. Speaking to reporters in Florence, where he is mayor,cheap toms, Renzi blamed Prodi's defeat in the secret vote on defectors in their bickering party. Prodi's candidacy "was the best profile we can offer the country," said Francesco Boccia, a Democratic Party leader. But after the stinging defeat in Parliament, he said party leaders would huddle together Friday night to "look each other in the eye" and come up with a new strategy, and likely a new candidate. One possibility touted by commentators was Massimo D'Alema, an ex-premier and former leader of the now defunct Italian Communist Party, which eventually morphed into the Democr Related articles:

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