Mattarella re-elected President of the Republic: bis at the Quirinale

Sergio Mattarella was re-elected President of the Republic. This is the result of the eighth vote in the reunited Parliament. In Italian history he is the second President, after Giorgio Napolitano, to be reconfirmed at the Quirinale. His name has brought together the political forces and effectively averted a dangerous institutional crisis.

the most voted after pertini

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Mattarella has surpassed the absolute majority of the great electors, set at 505 votes, with 759 preferences, he surpassed the encore of Giorgio Napolitano and is therefore the most voted after Sandro Pertini, who in 1978 obtained 832 preferences out of 995. During today’s vote , the second most voted was Carlo Nordio with 90 votes.

80 years old

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After a dozen candidacies burned, including those of the “first woman at the Quirinale”, the party leaders asked for another sacrifice from the outgoing head of state who replied: “If necessary, there are, even if I had other plans”. Just a few days ago Mattarella, now 80, had in fact moved to his new home in the Pinciano district of Rome and flew to Palermo, his hometown, away from Montecitorio.