Giuseppe Savà published on ragusanews.com details on how Cardinal Bergoglio was elected pope. According to Savà Bergoglio received from the start a relative majority of the votes while the second placed, Milan Cardinal Scola, never exceeded 30. In the following ballots the votes from the Curia cardinals shifted from Scherer to Bergoglio. In the fourth ballot, the North American cardinals voted for Bergoglio who got stuck at 50 votes. Before the fifth ballot there was a “technical pause”. Bergoglio was asked whether, unlike in the 2005 conclave, he would be willing to accept an election, and he said yes. In the fifth election, he received 90 out of 114 votes.
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