Black smoke has emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, signaling that the two votes held this Thursday have also not produced a result.
The conclave to elect the successor to Francis, who passed away on April 21, began on Wednesday, when the cardinals locked themselves in the famous chapel with Michelangelo's frescoes, to hold only one vote in the afternoon, which also failed.
It is unusual for the Pope to be elected on the first day of the conclave, the last two have lasted 2 days. During today and the following days, 4 votes are expected per day. After the two rounds held in the morning, there will be 2 more in the afternoon, at the end of which smoke will also come out of the Chapel chimney.
The 133 cardinals with voting rights under the age of 80 are staying in isolation in the Vatican, without contact with the outside world until the new Pope is elected. The voting takes place in secret and at the end of the rounds, the ballots are burned and the result is signaled from the chimney located in the Sistine Chapel; white smoke indicates that we have a new Pope, while black smoke signals a failure of the vote.
For a candidate to be elected as the leader of the 1.4 billion-member church, he must have the support of two-thirds of the cardinals, in this case 89. In St. Peter's Square, more than 45,000 faithful stood with their heads held high, facing the chimney. Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re said he believed white smoke would rise this afternoon.
In the modern history of the Conclave, 2 Popes have been elected on the fourth attempt, John Paul I in 1978 and Benedict XVI in 2005. Meanwhile, for Pope Francis in 2013, it took 5 rounds of voting. (A2 Televizion)
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