The election will be presided over by the President of the Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico, who will proceed to the public counting of the votes, and by the President of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati. Fico has anticipated that he will consider only announcing the surname of the candidate written on each ballot while counting the votes, ignoring any additional names or titles. This is seen as a move to counteract Berlusconi's strategy, which reportedly involved having his supporters mark the ballots in recognizable ways.[5]