Quarantined Italian MPs gear up for drive-in vote for new president

Speaker of lower house seeks permission to give 35 grand electors' a chance to have their say

Italian parliamentarians who have Covid-19 may be allowed to cast their ballots for Italy's new president from a car park.

More than 1,000 MPs and regional delegates will begin voting on Monday, and amid a debacle over who the next head of state should be, the coronavirus pandemic is posing logistical challenges.