Liputan6.com, Vatican – City – On Wednesday, May 7, 2025 local time, black smoke rose from the pipe of the chapel of Sistina in the Vatican. This means that in the first round of the 267th elections in the dad, none of the candidates won the majority of votes in two-thirds of the necessary. The election process continues, leaving millions of Catholics around the world in complete hope and expectation.
Thousands of people are waiting for smoke from St. Peter’s Square (St. Petrus Field) at the end of the first day of a secret vote of 133 cardinals for the next leader of 1.4 billion Catholics in the world.
The color of the smoke, black or white, is the only way to communicate with the results of a secret vote of the public, awaiting Santo Peter on the field. Black smoke, the result of burning voting with a mixture of certain chemicals, shows that there is no consent. Conversely, white smoke indicates the election of a new whale. This conclave process, the choice of whales is closed, can last several hours, days, even weeks.
Report Associated Press (AP) The quoted on Thursday (5/5/2025) mentioned the cardinals who participated in the most geographically diverse connection in the history of 2000 years of religion, occupied only one round of voting on Wednesday (7/5) Night. After they did not find the winner in the first vote, they rested that night and return to Sistina’s chapel on Thursday morning to try to find the replacement of Pope Francis.
They discovered the Constitution of the successor of the successor of Pope Francis on Wednesday (7/5) in the afternoon, participated in a more dramatic rite than Hollywood, with the cardinal presence of red clothing, Latin singing, incense and sincerity, which emphasized the seriousness of the moment.
Outside of Santo Parsus, the atmosphere was alive, because thousands of people flocked to Piazza to watch the procession on a giant video screen, clapping in their hands when the door of the chapel of Sistina was closed and the vote began. They waited for hours, watching the screen, which showed only a thin chimney, and sometimes a seagull.
After the vote lasts until dinner, some people leave this place with disappointment, but those who remain to cheer up when the smoke finally came out.
“I hope that the cardinals will choose a person who can be a peacekeeper and will be able to reunite the church,” said Gabriel Capri, a 27 -year -old man from London.
