The dilemmas of the Colle, the pressure for the re-election of Mattarella is growing

He has repeated at least a dozen times that getting re-elected would be against his principles. In a normal country he would be left alone. Yet Sergio Mattarella, despite being so clear, is still haunted by the ghost of the “encore”. The more he asks to be treated as president emeritus, as a great “ex”, the more pressure grows against him, dictated half by the esteem he has earned over the seven years, the other half by a completely different kind of concern.