Italy’s Parliament failed to elect new President of the Republic in the first rounds of voting on Thursday and on Friday. Political stalemate continues in Italy.

Bersani's candidate Franco Marini, a former union leader and Senate speaker, failed to get the required two-thirds majority of the 1,007 electors in the first vote. Meantime, in the second round of voting he did not garner votes as many members of both center-left and center-right blocks casted blank ballots. Marini&rsq...