Quirinal, vote-bursts include two for Alberto Angela and one for Barbero

As is often the case during voting for the election of the President of the Republic, there was no shortage of odd votes during the first ballot for the 2022 Election of the President of the Italian Republic: among them, two went to Alberto Angela, the popular TV host and face of TV popularization. Other fanciful names, including those of Mauro Corona, Amadeus, Giuseppe Cruciani, Dino Zoff, and Alfonso Signorini, on the other hand, went to fill the sum of the scattered votes. A single vote was also cast for another well-known figure in popularization, historian Alessandro Barbero.

This is not the first time that a figure in popularization has managed to get more than one vote, although there is talk of the vote-bully phenomenon, or at any rate of votes for candidates who would never have any chance of aspiring to the Quirinal. The phenomenon began to become consistent with the 1978 election, the one that led to the choice of Sandro Pertini: the philosopher Norberto Bobbio got nine votes on the fourth ballot, and two on both the fifth and sixth (it should be noted, however, that Bobbio was a senator at the time). Also in 1978 there were two votes on the tenth ballot, six on the eleventh and four on the twelfth for the philologist Vittore Branca, who, however, unlike Bobbio, never entered Parliament.

Finally, in 1992, it was the turn of a great artist: Emilio Isgrò, on the eleventh ballot of the ballots that led to the election of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, got two votes. Since Isgrò, no other cultural personality has received more than one vote. However, if one were to widen the look to the world of entertainment, at the last election (those of 2015, when the current president Sergio Mattarella was elected), the rampant vote-bullying led the host Ezio Greggio to score as many as seven votes: two on the first ballot, three on the second, and two on the third (Mattarella was elected on the fourth).

Quirinal, vote-bursts include two for Alberto Angela and one for Barbero

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