Sergio Mattarella is the brand new president of Italy

Roma.- The Italian politician and jurist Sergio Mattarella, 73 years outdated, a determine on whom the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, opted, was elected right this moment as the brand new president of Italy within the fourth spherical of voting following having surpassed absolutely the majority of 505 votes within the Parliament.

The previous choose of the Constitutional Courtroom was elected in a vote of the Parliament assembly in a joint session wherein a complete of 1,009 voters, together with deputies, senators, representatives of areas and senators for all times, solid their votes.

When the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, learn the poll that confirmed her election, the parliament broke out in a loud applause, though it was not a shock, since based on calculations, it will far exceed the required votes.

On the time of the election, Mattarella was in a room of the Constitutional Courtroom, the place, as protocol requires, Boldrini approached to tell him of the outcomes of the votes.

«My ideas go, above all and above all, to the difficulties and hopes of our compatriots. “Simply that is sufficient,” he stated on the insistence of the journalists upon listening to the information.

Mattarella obtained 665 votes, together with these of all of the parliamentarians of the Democratic Occasion (PD), the New Heart Proper (NCD), the centrist events and the Left, Ecology and Freedom events.

The candidate proposed by the 5 Star Motion, led by comic Beppe Grillo, Justice of the Peace Ferdinando Imposimato, was left with 127 votes and there have been 105 clean ballots comparable to the members of Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, who had introduced their dissent.

One other of the winners of right this moment’s contest is the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, who, based on the weekly Panorama, proposed Mattarella “unilaterally” in a “masterpiece” of political ways.

In a tweet wherein he highlighted the determine of Mattarella, Renzi right this moment outlined him as “an excellent politician”, a person “of legality”, highlighting amongst different elements his “battle towards the mafia.”

The determine of Mattarella, a former Christian Democrat near the left, with an extended however discreet profession, managed to unify Renzi’s Democratic Occasion, which in current months had not been in a position to agree on any subject.

Likewise, following some disagreements, the NCD legislators – Renzi’s allies led by the Minister of the Inside, Angelino Alfaro – agreed this morning to help the candidacy.

For his half, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rejected the election and was just regarding out of the sport, having not even been consulted concerning the election of an outdated political rival.

The get together of the “former Cavaliere” voted clean, contemplating it “a betrayal” for not having been consulted, which is why they introduced the top of the so-called Nazarene Pact, the settlement they maintained to hold out some constitutional reforms and the brand new electoral system.

The twelfth president of the Italian Republic now has to obtain the investiture in Parliament, the place he’ll take the oath of workplace and provides a speech, in an occasion that may very well be held on Monday.

The brand new president will exchange Giorgio Napolitano, who resigned on January 14 following 9 years of service and a life devoted to politics, as a result of “the restrictions and difficulties” derived from his age, 89 years.

Matarella, born in Palermo in 1941, had an open confrontation with the Italian mafia following the loss of life of his brother, Piersanti Mattarella, murdered by Cosa Nostra on January 6, 1980, when he was president of the Sicily area.

He was Minister of Relations with Parliament throughout the federal government of Ciriaco De Mita from 1988 to 1989 and of Schooling with Giulio Andreotti, between 1989 and 1990, a place from which he resigned following the approval of the Mammì regulation, which granted three tv channels to Mediaset. , Berlusconi’s media empire.

He later held the positions of vp of the Council of Ministers, throughout the years 1998 and 1999, and head of Protection from 1999 to 2000, within the left-wing authorities of Massimo D’Alema.

As Protection Minister, he supported reform that abolished conscription whereas supporting NATO’s invasion of Yugoslavia towards former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.

In 2011 he was elected choose of the Constitutional Courtroom by the Parliament of his nation.