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Black smoke escalated in the Vatican .. What is its relationship to electing the new Pope?

Black smoke from the Sistina Church church in the Vatican escalated around 19:00 pm on Wednesday, GMT, indicating that the first vote of the 1330s in the electoral complex was not led to the election of the new Pope, according to Agence France -Presse correspondents.
Thousands of visitors in St. Peter’s Square watched the escalating smoke after they waited for more than 3 hours to find out the result of the first day of the Cardinals meetings, which are held in secret behind closed doors.

The meeting of 133 Cardinal

133 Cardinal meets an average age of 70 years, most of whom are certain by Pope Francis, the late Pope of the Vatican, in a closed electoral complex to choose a successor to him, with a strong European representation but it is declining.

It is only called the closed complex except the Cardinals who did not exceed eighty years of age, and therefore 117 Cardinal will not participate in the election of the next Pope, in a process expected to start in early May.

Cardinals from the continent of Europe

Among the voters, the ritual arrivals from the continent of Europe will be the most number in the Sistina Church, with 53 actors, or 39% of the voters. For comparison, the number of Europeans during the meeting that led to the election of Pope Francis in 2013, 60 out of 115 (52%).
After the Europeans, the Asian Cardinans (23), then the South Americans, Central America (21), Farraqa (18) and the North Americans (16), followed by Oceanians (4), according to the numbers of the Holy See.

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