Sergio Mattarella, 73, since Saturday is the new President of the Italian Republic. Judge of the Constitutional Court, the Christian Democratic Left, a practicing Catholic and austere man discreet political career, has remained in his first statement: "My thoughts are above all the difficulties and hopes of our citizens . "
After three rounds of voting by a majority of two-thirds is the fourth round with a simple majority of 665 votes out of 1009 electors, as the successor of Giorgio Napolitano elected. At 89, he had resigned without completing his second term of 7 years. The President of the Italian Republic has only limited powers, but plays an important role as arbitrator in the event of political crisis.
The election of Mattarella is a great victory for the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, who had proposed unilaterally and by surprise. Winning his bet, he strengthens his position and that of his party, the Democratic Party. It is especially a blow to Berlusconi: thirty of the electors of Forza Italia did not follow his orders to vote white.
For the Cavaliere do not forget that Sergio Mattarella had resigned from the government of Giulio Andreotti in 1990 to protest against the law granting three TV channels Mediaset, his media empire.
Several times minister, lawyer born in Palermo in 1941 is intended to be a law professor. He entered politics following the assassination of his elder brother by the Mafia while he is president of Sicily in 1980.
Mattarella is also one of the few Christian Democrats to survive the "Tangentopoli" the corruption mégascandale 1990s In 2001, he was defense minister when the military service was abolished.
Retired from political life in 2008, Matterella back at the top of the ladder.
Lighting
Massimo Franco, political analyst of the daily Corriere della Sera took questions from our Italian journalist Alfredo Ranavolo.
AR:
Italy was accustomed in recent years to Georgio Napolitano interventionism because of a complex political situation. With Mattarella, are we heading towards a change of direction?
MF
"It will depend on the political climate. Usually, presidents have a more or less active role, everything depends. I think if the parties and parliament work well Mattarella intervene as little as possible. "
AR:
The election of Mattarella is undoubtedly the result of the strategy Matteo Renzi. He chose, was elected in the fourth round, as he had expected. How much will this operation does strengthen it?
FM:
"Without a doubt, this transaction strengthens the lot. First, because it has managed over-all to maintain the unity of his party, the Democratic Party, which, remember, has not been kind to his predecessor. And then he showed he could find the personality that represents the best compromise possible in this political phase. So I think it serves a dual purpose, it must be recognized. "
AR:
Renzi wanted a president to the character and different style itself. What relationship can arise between the two, more generally between the sobriety of Mattarella and political tone often excessive?
FM:
"This trait of sobriety and discretion is clean when a head of state begins to show the wheel of a panda, a small car, it reminds somehow a secular version of Pope Francis."
AR:
Sergio Mattarella just the Constitutional Court, so it was an arbiter of law, and it now becomes the one to promulgate ...
FM:
"I think Mattarella is a great connoisseur of not only the Constitution but also the state machine. So the choice was very good and it sweeps all speculation on the fact that someone could have Quirinale which has no political knowledge. "
AR:
It is also the first time that a president is so close to a tragedy linked to the mafia, with the murder of his brother Piersanti. Does it actually or symbolically important tangible?
FM:
"Mattarella is a Sicilian fighting the Mafia. This has a tangible matter because I think that this tragic episode has deeply marked the life of Sergio Mattarella. Ultimately, it is this epidode which led him to enter politics, replacing his brother. "
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