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ROME (AP) — The insistence of Italy’s center-right bloc that one of its candidates be returned for the country’s presidency backfired on Friday, as tensions and frustration mounted among rival parties forming Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s pandemic unity government and that a fifth day of voting yielded no winner. In each of Friday’s two rounds of voting, one political bloc or the other abstained en masse from voting, making it clear how far apart the two sides were from agreeing on who should be the next leader. Italian state. At the start of the fifth day of voting, right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini said the center-right bloc would vote for Senate President Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. The springboard for his political career was former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative Forza Italia party, which withdrew itself as a candidate before voting began this week.