Sergio Mattarella was re-elected president of the Republic with 759 votes out of a total of 983 present and voting. It therefore does not exceed the record recorded by Pertini who was elected with 832 votes but becomes the second most voted head of state. In 2015 Mattarella obtained 665 votes out of a total of 995 major voters. “These conditions impose not to shirk the duties to which one is called and of course they must prevail over other considerations and different personal perspectives“said Mattarella speaking immediately after the election.
The meeting of the Parliament in joint session for the oath and the message of the President of the Republic will be held on Thursday 3 February at 15.30.
There is “a commitment to interpret the expectations and hopes of our fellow citizens,” he said.
After reaching the quorum of the absolute majority, the applause lasted four minutes in the Chamber.
“The re-election of Sergio Mattarella to the Presidency of the Republic is splendid news for the Italians. I am grateful to the President for his choice to support the very strong will of Parliament to re-elect him for a second term”. Thus the Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
“I had other plans but I am respectful of Parliament”, said the president confirming his yes after the agreement reached in a majority summit on his name.
A phone call of gratitude from Matteo Salvini to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. League sources report it.
From Sergio Mattarella “a choice of generosity”, said the leader of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta. The government and Draghi, he added, “come out strengthened”. The request to converge on a female President, “for us it was not a mere formality but a real battle, so much so that at the end of the negotiation table there remained two candidacies of women of absolute excellence, profile and competence” Thus the M5s President Giuseppe Conte at a press conference where he adds: “on the possibility of having a female President, Conte has not lost or the M5s community has lost the country. This without detracting from the fact that we are going to this vote to support Mattarella for a new seven years”.
“With Draghi I asked for a clarification: we cannot limit ourselves to ensuring the stability of the government, we must be promoters of a confrontation to sign a pact for citizens in which to identify what the priorities may be” for the country.
“Some leaderships have failed, have fueled tensions and divisions: we must work to unite, to broaden, politics in recent days has fallen victim to itself: fortunately this stalemate was resolved by Parliament thanks also to the contribution of Prime Minister Mario Draghi “. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio leaving Montecitorio after the re-election of Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale.
“I am happy that Mattarella has accepted with a sense of responsibility the intention of Parliament to indicate him to the presidency of the Republic. Resignation? To face this new phase, a fine-tuning is needed: the government with its majority adopts a new type of working method that allows us to constructively deal with the many dossiers, even divided, in order not to transform this year into a very long, harmful electoral campaign that does not serve the country “. So the development minister Giancarlo Giorgetti at the end of a meeting with the secretary of the Lega Salvini. The two asked Draghi to meet. a meeting of three Draghi-Giorgetti-Salvini there are all the necessary clarifications“. Thus the leader of the League Matteo Salvini.” I am relieved because there was a risk of going on between vetoes and quarrels. And I’m calm, I made all possible proposals, especially on the women’s front. “” Tomorrow the parliament is back to being the Parliament, the government is the government: we need normality. The quarrels of recent days on the Hill do not spill over to the government “.
Mattarella “recognized that there would be the possibility of electing high-level personalities but he once again reaffirmed the profound sense of the institutions that pervaded him and told us that he will do his best“. Debora Serracchiani said this at a press conference after the meeting at Colle. Simona Malpezzi, leader of the Pd group in the Senate, adds:” Mattarella is a man of the institutions: he welcomed us, listened to us and accepted the requests of a Parliament that collected in turn, the demands of a country, with its usual ability to understand the moments that the country is experiencing “.
It is appropriate that the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella remain at the Quirinale “for the good and stability of the country”. This is what the premier would have said Mario Draghi – we learn from authoritative sources – to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and to the political leaders, who is hearing in these hours. The decision is in the hands of Parliament, it is the premier’s awareness, but the hope expressed to the leaders would be to guarantee stability by asking Mattarella to stay.
Today Draghi had an interview of about half an hour with President Mattarella, in the margin of oath of Filippo Patroni Griffi to judge of the Constitutional Court. There was also news of a phone call between Salvini and Draghi.
Long and affectionate phone call between Berlusconi and Mattarella. President Berlusconi assured President Mattarella of Forza Italia’s support for his re-election.
“This is the moment of unity and we must all feel it as a duty. But unity today can only be found around the figure of President Sergio Mattarella, from whom we know we are asking for a great sacrifice, but we also know that we can ask him in the highest interest of the country, the same one that he has always witnessed in the 7 years of his very high mandate. ” Like this Silvio Berlusconi, from San Raffaele in Milan where he is still hospitalized.
“We consider that it is no longer serious to continue with the crossed no and vetoes and tell the president to reconsider”. Thus the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini in an argument on Sergio Mattarella. “A part of the Parliament does not want to find an agreement, then we ask Mattarella to stay, and so the team remains like this, Draghi stays at Palazzo Chigi “, Salvini explains, adding that” the important thing is that Mattarella is not perceived as a makeshift “.
“I think that Mattarella proves once again that he is a man of the state. I found him determined and his further availability is a sign of his great responsibility. “This was stated by the president of the State Regions Conference Massimiliano Fedriga as he left the quirinale.
During the majority summit there would have been until the end a duel between vetoes on names. Salvini would have proposed the name of Cartabia but receiving a refusal. So – parliamentary sources report – the allies would have proposed the Casini solution to the Northern League leader but this time it would have been Salvini who said no. Finally, that of Mattarella bis emerged as the only unary solution.
“Salvini proposes that everyone go and beg Mattarella to make another term as President of the Republic. I don’t want to believe it.” Like this Giorgia Meloni su twitter.
“Italy cannot be further worn down by those who put their personal ambitions before the good of the country. I certainly do not want to be among them. I ask Parliament, whose centrality I have always defended, to remove my name from any discussion and to ask the President of the Republic Mattarella for willingness to continue his mandate in the interest of the country “. So Pier Ferdinando Casini, intercepted by ANSA.
“I wish to express my sincere wishes to President Mattarella for this second term, which will allow him to exercise with renewed determination the function of guarantor of the Constitution in a very delicate phase for the future of the country, which sees us committed to tackling the economic and social challenges connected to the recovery from the pandemic “. , Elisabetta Casellati, who this evening went with President Fico to the Quirinale to communicate the outcome of today’s vote to President Sergio Mattarella. “I am sure that your authoritative example will inspire and guide us in addressing these challenges. Good work, President,” she concluded.
Parliament with 759 votes re-elected Sergio Mattarella as President of the Republic. My sincere wishes and my thanks go to him. It will continue to be the absolute guarantor of the values of our Constitution and a point of reference for our national community “. the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico.
“I wish to extend my cordial congratulations on your re-election to the supreme office of the Italian Republic and express my best wishes for the performance of your high task, which you welcomed with a spirit of generous availability”. Pope Francis writes this in a congratulatory message for Sergio Mattarella, re-elected to the presidency of the Republic. The Pope assures the president of his prayers “that he may continue to support the dear Italian people in building an ever more fraternal coexistence and encouraging them to face the future with hope”.
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